Reeves gets it wrong again - this time on non-doms
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025As the Financial Times notes this morning: Chancellor Rachel Reeves is exploring reversing a decision to charge UK inheritance tax on the global assets of
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What Dan Neidle gets wrong about tax on wealth
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025Dan Neidle, who seems to think he is God’s gift to neoliberal tax policy because he was once the head of tax at the highest-earning
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It is time to end the payment of most interest to commercial banks by the Bank of England
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025I got this link from Steve Keen, whose Substack is worth subscribing to. Ted Cruz has claimed that the Federal Reserve should stop paying banks
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Economics is crap
Monday, June 16th, 2025Economics, as it is now taught, is almost total rubbish. No wonder the world is in a mess when political decisions are based on this
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The Guardian is part of the problem
Sunday, June 15th, 2025As The Guardian notes this morning: Rachel Reeves is braced for revised forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to blow a £20bn hole in her
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Do tax havens still matter?
Saturday, June 14th, 2025Tax havens – or secrecy jurisdictions – are an abomination on the global economic landscape that should have been consigned to history long ago. This
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Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
Friday, June 13th, 2025As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the
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It's austerity from Reeves
Wednesday, June 11th, 2025Reeves is delivering austerity for the UK, unless you’re wealthy, when it’s still bonanza time. This is the transcript: It has to be said that
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Reeves Spending Review - contemporaneous notes
Wednesday, June 11th, 2025These are my contemporaneous notes made as Reeves spoke on her Spending Review this lunchtime. I stress – they were just notes – nothing more,
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