The single currency’s design isn’t perfect. But what’s really hampered its first 20 years, says Adam Tooze, are decisions freely taken by power-hungry men in Frankfurt
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Corruption
Nicholas Shaxson: IMF tackles tax havens
The IMF’s latest edition of Finance & Development carries a feature on tax havens by Nicholas Shaxson, a contributor to Brave New Europe and Tax Justice Network (author of Treasure Islands and the more recent The Finance Curse,) […]
Finance
Ken Boyd: Tax Avoidance By The Numbers: The Paradise Papers
This an excellent, easy to understand, somewhat long explanation of the Paradise Papers. So if you feel you did not really understand what the fuss was about, you can catch up here. A great weekend […]
Climate Crisis
Axios: China’s unrivaled 70-day heat wave
The extreme heat and drought that has been roasting a vast swath of southern China for at least 70 straight days has no parallel in modern record-keeping in China, or elsewhere around the world for […]
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