Notayesmanseconomics’s Blog: The Italian banks and how they have contributed to a possible end to deposit protection

When corruption sets in, the fish rots from the head: in this case recent actions of the World Bank carry a whiff of something not quite right! Read here

Wren-Lewis takes a very sobering approach to the idea of creating a European Monetary Fund. The problem is, who should run it? Definitely not politicians, writes Wren-Lewis. He sees the technocrats as the lesser evil. […]

Hopes dashed as OECD’s reform plans expected to reduce profits booked in corporate tax havens by only 5 per cent Additional tax recovered from corporate tax havens will mainly benefit richest countries, while lower-middle income […]