Central bankers need to be put back in charge of the paper clips where they can do relatively little harm
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022The Guardian has reported that: The world economy may be on the brink of a new inflationary era with persistently higher growth in consumer prices
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There is no good reason for selling Channel 4
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022Nadine Dorries, a person so unfit for cabinet office that if a case were to be made for the collapse in the quality of government
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The government is claiming that all the money it issues is asset backed, and that is complete nonsense
Monday, April 4th, 2022Peter May, who pretty much runs the Progressive Pulse website these days, even though I am its director, wrote a really important blog on Friday.
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The government can create all the money that we need to prevent poverty, misery, despair and recession in this country, but is choosing not to do so. Why?
Monday, April 4th, 2022I wrote this on Twitter last night: It would cost around £50 billion to save people from the hunger, the cold, the poverty and the
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The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation is failing society with its proposals on accounting for climate change
Monday, April 4th, 2022I noted that the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation had issued, through its International Sustainability Standards Board, two new standards on accounting for environmental change
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Government does not come worse than this
Sunday, April 3rd, 2022This column by me was in The Sheffield Star yesterday: There are some dates that go down in economic history. April 1 this year might
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Why is it that those who live off financial speculation are taxed so much less in the UK than those who work for a living?
Friday, April 1st, 2022My old friend and long term colleague in tax justice and accounting reform campaigning, Prem Sikka, who now sits in the House of Lords, said
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Is HM Revenue & Customs turning the payment of tax into a voluntary activity for some?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022AccountingWEB has a chilling article out this week by tax commentator Philip Fisher. As he notes: In November 2021, the National Audit Office (NAO) issued
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The Green New Deal can offer a more secure future
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022My Green New Deal and Finance for the Future colleague Colin Hines had this post on the Green Alliance blog this week. It is shared
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