I mentioned Dan Neidle’s proposed reform of capital gains tax yesterday. As he had previously done with investment income, he suggested that the ‘normal rate
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Having to clear my late father’s home recently it became very apparent how the material focus of economics is wrong. What he had mattered for
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Steve Pottinger is a poet whose work I have admired and bought for a long time. The poem of his that is reproduced below was
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I was on Radio 5 this morning discussing inheritance tax with a Conservative commentator who really was a little clueless. This is a clip we
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I posted this Tweet yesterday: The Tweet was, I admit, inspired by a comment someone made here, but in posting it I was not just making
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People seemed quite interested in a potential discussion between Prof Steve Keen and myself a month or so ago when the possibility was discussed on
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I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I did a meeting with Faiza Shaheen in the constituency in which she stood at the general
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Some people seem to think that modern monetary theory (MMT) is a set of policy options a country might adopt. It isn’t. It’s a description
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I have been asked to comment on the proposed reform of capital gains tax put forward by Dan Neidle, the lawyer who was formerly the
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