Finance
The Guardian: eBay pays £1.1m UK tax on revenues it told US investors were £1.1bn
The Financial Times reported today that £1.6 Million had been paid in taxes, but the difference is irrelevant. Read here
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EU politics
Investigate Europe: Where have all the mothers gone?
The Country of Silent Tears: Economic migrant families from Romania have paid for decent earnings with anxiety and tears of the nation’s children. Investigate Europe is made up of nine experienced journalists from eight European […]
EU politics
Richard Murphy: Schäuble gets it wrong, even in hindsight
Wolfgang Schäuble, the leader of Europe’s austerity campaign and devastator of Greece, is retiring. Neither he, nor the German media, have any doubt that he saved Europe from itself. Richard Murphy is neither German, nor […]
EU politics
Thomas Piketty: Suppression of the wealth tax: an historical error
The suppression of the wealth tax (Impôt sur la Fortune or ISF) by Emmanuel Macron constitutes a serious moral, economic and historical mistake. This decision reveals a profound misunderstanding of the challenges to inequality posed by […]
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Centrists become Marxists
Chris Dillow explains that Marxism is increasingly relevant in today’s politics because the middle class has become part of the working class. It has its drudge work, maybe some money to invest in a house […]
Finance
Simon Wren-Lewis – Economists: too much ideology, too little craft
For all its claims of being a science, Wren-Lewis, borrowing from Dani Rodrik, sees economics also as a craft: ” If you do not apply the craft well, then what can replace it is ideology, […]
Corruption
The Guardian: Iceland PM sold bank assets hours before financial crash, leaks show
The current prime minister of Iceland sold over a million Euros in assets in the Glitnir bank just hours before the the state took control of the collapsing bank in 2008 Read here
Media
Owen Jones: We can no longer pretend the British press is impartial
From The Guardian What Owen Jones writes about the British media probably holds true for the media in most European nations. Read here
Corruption
Client Earth: Client Earth launches legal action to avert another Dieselgate
Once again the European Union demonstrates that commerce and the money that the car industry is raining upon political parties is more important than the health of its citizens. Once again it is the citizens […]
EU politics
Trust for London: London’s Poverty Profile 2017
58% of Londoners in poverty live in a working family. This is a 50% increase over the last decade. This equates to 1.3 million people. Read here