The Bank of England is hatching a not very cunning plan to make the economy very much worse in 2022
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021As the FT has reported this morning, the Bank of England is not just planning interest rate rises – very soon – it is also
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The UK government approach to sustainability reporting announced today is pure greenwash
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021The UK government issued a cross-department report on what they call a Roadmap to Sustainable Investing today. As they said: The report, entitled Greening Finance: A
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We have an economic crisis coming our way. Like our Covid and supply chain crises this will be made right here in the UK by the Tories.
Monday, October 18th, 2021Last week the Guardian noted that Rish Sunak was clearly wishing to deliver an austerity budget. As they noted this was a choice: Something has
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Why we need action to tackle wealth inequality
Sunday, October 17th, 2021Brave New Europe is a blog that regularly reposts material that first appears here, as it also reposts work from those writing on the sites
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Our government chooses indifference to real people. Putting concern back in economics is what really matters
Friday, October 15th, 2021My fellow Mile End Road Economist, Prof Danny Blanchflower, had good things to say on economics in his Peston Lecture yesterday. This annual event is
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Why the tax justice movement needs to move its thinking on
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021As I noted in a post at the weekend, the OECD has now concluded its latest global corporation tax deal. It is imperfect. It was
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The Green New Deal is easily affordable if we can persuade people to ‘Save for the planet’, with a little nudge from reformed tax reliefs
Monday, October 11th, 2021In Rishi Sunak’s speech to the Tory party conference last week the word ‘climate’ did not appear at all. Instead, the case that he made
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It's not just the stock market that might be in trouble this winter - smaller businesses also face a debt crisis
Monday, October 11th, 2021I have already mentioned this morning the capacity that the government and/or the Bank of England have to help mess up the economy this winter,
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It's time to celebrate a global tax deal that delivers much for tax justice - and to now move on to other more pressing tax issues that need more attention now
Sunday, October 10th, 2021The OECD global tax deal has been signed by 140 countries and jurisdictions. Some are claiming it represents a sell-out by the OECD and a
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