Richard Murphy of Tax Research UK proposes hitting those wanton frequent fliers – such as workaholic businesspersons and owners of second homes abroad – with a progressive Tax to Save the Environment (TASTE). Unpopular but game-changing perhaps…
Finance
Charles Adams: Science and technology are the greatest agents of collective human progress.
From Progressive Pulse The market does not drive productivity, so necessary to improving living standards. Investment in research and development leads to productivity gains, but as we know, money is not being invested in the real […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – EMU Member States should ignore Brussels and do whatever it takes
More and more people are realising that it is beyond reform – and that goes for the EU in general. The Eurozone is just the most advanced expression of the neoliberalism built into the EU […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: Germans to the Front
According to Hofstadter’s Law, obviously a descendent of Murphy’s Law, ‘everything takes longer than you think’. Last year the first to get acquainted with it in a big way was the Russian warlord, Putin, who […]
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