The FT has published this chart this morning:As the FT notes: Green bonds are red hot. Issuance smashed through analysts’ projections in 2019 and is
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Rebadged work
Ian McCluskey describes himself like this on Twitter: I mention this because this morning he has posted this, with reference to Rebecca Long-Bailey making the
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Rebecca Long Bailey says it’s all about the Green New Deal. On that, at least, she’s right
Rebecca Long-Bailey launched her campaign to be Labour leader with an article in Tribune, published overnight. It was better than her false start in the
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The Fair Tax Mark – moving on into 2020
I am no longer a director of the Fair Tax Mark, but am still working with it on developing new areas of work, and remain
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When will accountants take tax avoidance seriously?
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has issued a new code of ethics. It’s 200 pages long. It does not mention tax
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Fiscal policy is about changing the way we run the economy, for the common good
No one who has read this blog for a while can have much doubt as to my sentiments about much of the so-called investment market
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The FT has decided to embrace fiscal policy, but it needs to get its head around the politics of it as well
The FT argued in an editorial published yesterday that: For four decades, monetary policy has been the dominant instrument of macroeconomic policy and central banks
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How do the best minds get involved in politics?
Brave New Europe posted a blog from Heiner Flassbeck yesterday in which he argued: [T]here is much that needs to be rethought and redesigned at
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Trump, liberal democracy and existential crisis
There are certain things that seem to me to be essential if we are to live in a liberal democracy. One, of course, is a
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