I wrote the first version of country-by-country reporting for multinational corporations that are public interest entities in 2003. That can be found here. Now Australia
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Sorting out the spend and tax cycle in modern monetary theory
The post that follows is one of my ongoing series on thinking about what modern monetary theory (MMT) says and what I think it should
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Steve Keen and Friends, tomorrow at 5pm
I am debating modern monetary theory with Steve Keen and others on YouTube tomorrow (Saturday, 29 April) at 5pm. As far as I can work
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The UK has poor public services and a rapidly increasing tax cost. It’s a recipe for discontent.
If you believed the UK’s media this country is massively overtaxed. The OECD has published new data which challenges this idea. Data for the OECD
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One word
It is not often I find reason to do a one word tweet. I did this morning: Twitter seems to like it. Sometimes less is
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There is a class war going on, and it’s being waged by the wealthy
The FT has a feature article today under the headline: The article celebrates the rise of LVMH, which is now Europe’s largest company by value.
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Why has every chartered accountant had an £89 subsidy from the fines paid by those accountants whose worked imposed a cost on society?
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has, according to page 8 of its 2022 annual report that has just been published, 166,397
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Oil and gas prices are tumbling. Wage cuts are not needed to beat inflation in that case.
In the debate I was involved in on Nicky Campbell’s show on Radio 5 Live and the BBC News Channel this morning, it was claimed
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Why we’re poorer now
This is a clip of my opening contribution to the Nicky Campbell Show on BBC Five Live and on the BBC News Channel this morning:
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