Would the UN do a better job on international tax than the OECD?
Friday, November 26th, 2021Dr Rasmus Christensen is a postdoctoral researcher at Copenhagen Business School. We know each other. Indeed, we are both working on the Time Mirror project
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The Fair Tax Mark - a statement
Thursday, November 25th, 2021I note that the Fair Tax Mark has published its new international standard for appraisal of companies today. Many will know that the Fair Tax
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The failure of Bulb was predictable given the state of its 2020 accounts so why was it allowed to grow until it was too big to fail?
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021Bulb Energy failed yesterday, and reports suggest that to keep its 1.7 million supplied with power will require significant state financial support. I thought it
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If a gas company can be too big to fail why shouldn't the supply of domestic gas be nationalised?
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021As the FT has noted: The UK energy crisis has claimed its biggest victim with Bulb, Britain’s seventh-biggest supplier, to enter special administration backed by
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The Counterbalance: How finance drives monopoly
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021As has been my habit since it began publishing, I republish here the least edition of The Counterbalance, which is published by The Balanced Economy
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A funding update
Monday, November 22nd, 2021Every now and then I need to provide an update on my funding in the interests of transparency, which is something I have spent so
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Monetary policy is dead: what we need is new thinking on how fiscal policy can really control inflation
Monday, November 22nd, 2021There is an article by Ruchir Sharma, who is Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s chief global strategist, in the FT today. In it he argues that
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Labour's commitment to balancing the books destroys any chance it has of delivering the policy agenda the UK needs
Monday, November 22nd, 2021As the Guardian notes this morning: Keir Starmer will make a pitch to win over Britain’s business leaders by promising a Labour government will not
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It is time that tax justice campaigners realised that tax havens have changed and that they are not mainly in the business of facilitating income and corporate tax abuses now
Friday, November 19th, 2021In a recent series of videos that I posted on this blog I looked at the way in which tax havens have changed their activities
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