The Sterling Depreciation of 2007-2008 and Its Implications for Brexit
The unexpected impact of the fall in sterling in 2007-2008 suggests Brexit could produce a drastic drop in UK living standards.
Read more...The unexpected impact of the fall in sterling in 2007-2008 suggests Brexit could produce a drastic drop in UK living standards.
Read more...The Brexit vote was a stunning repudiation of neoliberalism and austerity. But what comes next?
Read more...Even those economists that think Brexit is a disastrous idea differ on how severe the downside would be.
Read more...Is Nigel Farage’s wealth offshore? Is that why he’s so calm about Brexit?
Read more...A British MP, Jo Cox, is dead in a presumed politically-driven murder.
Read more...The ruling classes in the UK will be highly motivated to try to get the Brexit genie back in the bottle.
Read more...Investors got a big dose of bad news about the economy and geopolitics and reacted accordingly.
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Read more...Never mind the “fantastically corrupt” Afghanistan and Nigeria. What about the UK?
Read more...The UK exempts Members of Parliament and other Special People from money laundering controls.
Read more...Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...The economic consequences of leaving the EU are at the heart of the Brexit debate. This column studies how changes in trade and fiscal transfers to the EU following Brexit would affect living standards in the UK. Across a range of scenarios, Brexit leads to lower income per capita, but the magnitude of the loss depends on what trade policies the UK adopts post-Brexit. To minimise the economic costs of Brexit, the UK would have to remain closely integrated into the Single Market.
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Read more...First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory
Read more...Fairfax and Huffington Post have broken a monster story on bribery by Unaoil in Iraq that implicates major multinational corporations and officials all over the Middle East. So why the media blackout?
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