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Podcast: #10YearsAfter the crash: time for new economics
Ten years after the financial crash, how do we learn from it and create a new, visionary kind of economics that works for everyone? In this Taxcast Extra special podcast Naomi Fowler talks to economist Henry Leveson-Gower of Promoting Economic Pluralism and editorial director of the Mint Magazine. “on the day before the French Revolution, that was the day when
Read the full article…#10YearsAfter The Crash, how can we avoid another crisis? Tax Justice event
For those in the UK and able to get to London, we’d like to draw your attention to this #10YearsAfter the Crash event organised by Tax Justice UK on 14th September at the RSA in London (for those not in the UK or London we aim to film it and make it available online afterwards.) It’s a free event but
Read the full article…#10yearsafter the crash: the failure of HBOS and the lessons for reform
As part of our series of blogs #10yearsafter the crash we reproduce below details of new research in a timely new book, The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS. It’s written by Professor Atul K. Shah, University of Suffolk who you can also follow here on twitter. In Professor Shah’s own words: “Reading the
Read the full article…Unmissable: ‘The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire’ film and panel discussion
For those in the UK and able to get to London, there’s an event as part of #10yearsafter the crash on 14th September 2017 that we’d like to draw your attention to which is organised by the Tax Justice Network and the recently formed Tax Justice UK. (For those not in the UK or London we aim to film the
Read the full article…#10yearsafter the crash what will the next one look like? Our August 2017 podcast
In the August 2017 Taxcast: #10yearsafter the crash we ask – what will the next one look like? Can we avoid it? Also: Panama Papers fallout – another Prime Minister bites the dust, this time in Pakistan the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca has closed 39 of its 45 offices around the world a UK court ruling spells the end
Read the full article…Our August 2017 Spanish language Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de agosto 2017
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en castellano). In this month’s programme: Brazil, Odebrecht, Puerto Rico, corruption, justice and tax havens. TweetShare
#10yearsafter the Crash: looking back at BBC coverage
When considering the lessons learnt and still to be learnt ten years after the Crash, it’s worth reminding ourselves of research conducted into public broadcaster the BBC’s famed impartiality through a major content analysis study conducted by academics at the Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. TweetShare
#10yearsafter the crash: anniversary today
We’ve blogged recently about the series of events marking the tenth anniversary of the financial crash which will focus on what we’ve learnt (and not learnt) and how we can reform our economies. We share below a press release from Promoting Economic Pluralism which is coordinating a programme of events in which the Tax Justice Network and Tax Justice UK
Read the full article…Inequality and the broken economy demonstrated in one graph
UPDATE (please see below for a UK graph) If you ever believed that the inequality levels we’re seeing today in most so-called developed economies are inevitable, not so very remarkable, and not as extreme as some might have us believe, economists Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman have produced a graph that demonstrates the problem, well, rather graphically in
Read the full article…Whistleblower Rudolf Elmer may soon release account data from Julius Baer bank
For twelve years now whistleblower Rudolf Elmer has been fighting Swiss banking secrecy, with court case after court case. He’s been imprisoned, victimised, and his family has been harassed. His reputation has been systematically ripped apart in a way that we believe has been intended as a deterrent to other potential whistleblowers. We’ve regularly covered his battles against the Swiss “justice”
Read the full article…10 Years after the Crash: building a reform agenda
In November 2008, the Queen apparently asked economists on a visit to the London School of Economics, ‘Why did no-one see it coming?’ Well, we’re approaching the ten year anniversary of the financial crash which wiped out Lehman Brothers, saw the first run on a UK bank (Northern Rock) in 150 years, and led to governments around the world bailing
Read the full article…The offshore world and the enablers of capital flight
We’re pleased to share an article from Argentinian Economist Jorge Gaggero which was recently published by Opinion Sur which we’ve adapted in places from the original version. It’s time, he says, for countries in the Global South to act together to address capital flight and the slowness of the world’s biggest economies to reform it. Read on here: The offshore
Read the full article…New research on key role major economies play in global tax avoidance
An important new study on Offshore Financial Centres (OFCs) from the University of Amsterdam has made some fascinating discoveries, challenging, as the Financial Secrecy Index has, the popular misconception that tax havens are only palm fringed little islands and exposing that in fact major economies play a key role in global tax avoidance. Specifically they’ve mined data that highlights the
Read the full article…We explore Land Value Tax in the Tax Justice Network July 2017 podcast
In this month’s July 2017 Taxcast: we explore Land Value Tax and the billions in revenue we’re missing out on. Plus: Tax Haven USA signs up to potential sanctions and blacklisting of the few nations still refusing to comply with international financial transparency rules, which would er, include itself as the world’s prime offender. Did Team USA read the small
Read the full article…Our July 2017 Spanish language Podcast: Justicia ImPositiva, nuestro podcast de julio 2017
Welcome to this month’s latest podcast and radio programme in Spanish with Marcelo Justo and Marta Nuñez, downloaded and broadcast on radio networks across Latin America and Spain. ¡Bienvenidos y bienvenidas a nuestro podcast y programa radiofónica! (abajo en castellano). In the July 2017 programme: The fire in Grenfell Tower in London that shocked the world and exposed the social
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