Economics
Matthew Yglesias: Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism
Elizabeth Warren is unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again. Read here
Tax
Economics
Claire Connelly: What are taxes actually for?
A simple, straighforward piece that does away with the myth that governments tax to spend. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy: CEOs are rigging markets to increase their pay and then sponsor free market mythology to justify their abuse
Rent is a redistribution of resources from those without power to those with it. Read here
Environment
Alex Kirby – Tax havens threaten oceans and rainforests
Most of the foreign money funding ocean plunder and the felling of the Amazon forest comes through tax havens, researchers say. By Alex Kirby, former BBC journalist and environment correspondent Cross-posted from Climate News Network […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast for August
In the August 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: Why are so many Bermudians leaving their beautiful island? And why have inequality levels become so extreme despite it’s huge offshore services centre? […]
Economics
Lars P. Syll – Rethinking public budgets
But in discussing within which margins public debt is feasible, the focus, however, is solely on the upper limit of indebtedness, and very few ask the question if maybe there is also a problem if […]
EU politics
Richard Murphy: Amazon’s tax is not transparent – but politicians let them get away with it
What would multinational corporations like Amazon do without the EU political elite permitting it to rip off tyxpayers? Read here
Deregulation
Lucas S. Ferro, Sergi Cutillas , Toni Pérez – The taxi strike in Barcelona: the right to work versus the fake sharing economy
Taxi drivers in Madrid and Barcelona temporarily terminated their strike Wednesday night. The decision was made following an emergency meeting between national and regional authorities concerning Über and Cabify, which the taxi sectors views as […]
EU politics
The Guardian: Amazon halved UK corporation tax bill to £4.5m last year
Although UK revenues hit $11.3bn last year, a healthy 19% year-on-year rise. Read here
EU politics
Karthik Ramanna and Atul Shah – Big Four and the revolving door
When accountants and auditors become the story because of systemic failures and corporate malfeasance you know something has gone badly wrong. As if not to be outdone by banking crises, big accountancy firms are increasingly […]