What’s in a Number? | Donald MacKenzie on the Importance of Libor | LRB Donald MacKenzie’s 2008 London Review of Books essay on Libor provides some fascinating detail on the setting of the rate and…
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LIBOR manipulation? Done for you, Big Boy | FT Alphaville
LIBOR manipulation? Done for you, Big Boy | FT Alphaville FT’s Alphaville provides some of the juicy detail on the UK’s FSA and US Dept of Justice report on Barclay’s almost 5 year “attempted manipulation of…
Summary report on the transfer pricing seminar held in Helsinki on 13-14 June 2012
Summary report on the transfer pricing seminar held in Helsinki on 13-14 June 2012 Useful report on the seminar “Transfer Pricing: Alternative Methods of Taxation of Multinationals”, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Tax Justice…
How rising income inequality contributed to Germany’s macroeconomic imbalances.
How rising income inequality contributed to Germany’s macroeconomic imbalances. Interesting account from Social Europe Journal on the myth behind the supposed benefits of ‘structural reform’. As this article shows there is no indication that making…
Ann Cahill has plenty of sensible things to say about the Financial Transaction Tax
Ann Cahill has plenty of sensible things to say about the Financial Transaction Tax The fact that the tax will be based on the place that the trade is done means that if a trade…
Robert Mundell Toilet and the Architecture of the Euro – it’s not failing. It’s doing what its supposed to do
Robert Mundell’s Toilet and the Architecture of the Euro – It’s not failing. It’s doing what its supposed to do: wrecking labour laws and reducing wages Mundell explained to me that, in fact, the euro…
Digital divide: Ireland falls to lowest position yet on global broadband rankings
Digital divide: Ireland falls to lowest position yet on global broadband rankings New figures from Ookla Net index show Ireland has fallen to 56th position in the world for download speeds, its worst showing yet,…
Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban
How to Build a Quagmire Interesting article providing information from a new book Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban We haven’t aided the Afghan economy; we are the economy. Our very presence there…
Mark Ames | The Quiet Extermination Of Labor Rights From Human Rights
This is written from a USA perspective. The specific details of who did what when do differ here in Ireland, and some of worst of the problems may not be so dire because of EU…
German finance ministry fears catastrophic consequences for Germany should the euro falter
German finance ministry fears catastrophic consequences for Germany should the euro falter From Eurointelligence this morning, on a leaked report from the German finance Ministry as reported in Der Spiegel … According to the German finance…
Anatole Kaletsky | Can the rest of Europe stand up to Germany?
Anatole Kaletsky | Can the rest of Europe stand up to Germany? Merkel doubtless believes that she is helping Europe when she maternally instructs the Greeks, Italians and Spaniards to “do their homework” and so…
Germany, Greece and the Marshall Plan
Germany, Greece and the Marshall Plan A must read this and ties in with Michael Burkes’ post on the cancelling of Greek debt. It’s from Albrecht Ritschl, professor of economic history at the London School…
Why young rural Greeks are set to embrace Syriza | Paul Mason
Why young rural Greeks are set to embrace Syriza | Paul Mason Paul Mason talks to some Greek farmers and finds that in a region without activist support or even a single poster up before…
Why The US Economy Can’t Get Out of First Gear
Why The US Economy Can’t Get Out of First Gear Rarely in history has the cause of a major economic problem been so clear yet have so few been willing to see it. The major…
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