I am not the greatest fan of The Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley. He is a man who can instinctively find the middle: the line of least
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Grant Thornton have proved that the auditing profession has completely lost its moral and professional compass
I am grateful to a commentator for drawing this legal case to my attention. I do not claim have read all the decision. If you
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Why the left and Labour really do need to adopt the core ideas of modern monetary theory
I read Jonathan Portes’ attack on modern monetary theory in Prospect with some bemusement. Firstly that is because many in the UK modern monetary theory
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Tax justice and MMT
I was involved in making a Taxcast on tax and modern monetary theory yesterday, with John Christensen and Namoi Fowler of the Tax Justice Network.
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MMT is not nonsense economics
I have not had time to finish my response to Jonathan Portes on MMT, and I will be publishing one here since Prospect are allowing
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The left must be bold and back a green new deal
Larry Elliott has an article under the above title in the Guardian this morning. As he does note: Full disclosure here: I was a founder
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Jonathan Portes, Prospect, modern monetary theory and the right to reply
I am aware that Jonathan Portes had a rather bizarre, straw-man based, attack on modern monetary theory published in Prospect yesterday. In this he did,
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It’s not only Grant Thornton who have a problem with Patisserie Valerie: the Financial Reporting Council do too
This is from The Times yesterday and is too important not to be shared: The Financial Reporting Council approved the quality of an audit of
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Grant Thornton dug themselves a great big pit yesterday and jumped right into it
The Guardian has reported: The former auditor of the collapsed cake chain Patisserie Valerie has argued that it is not the role of accountants to uncover fraud.
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