Corporation tax: the progressive case for getting rid of it
Mar 18, 2016 10:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
George Osborne, the UK chancellor, announced that corporation tax will be cut to 17% in 2020. But why stop there? Theres a very good case for thinking the unthinkable and getting rid of corporation tax altogether. For...
Does the First Amendment protect people who film the police?
Mar 18, 2016 10:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
This October, former police officer Michael Slager will stand trial for murder in the shooting death of Walter Scott following a daytime traffic stop last year in North Charleston, South Carolina. The critical evidence in...
Corporate tax: why conflict between firms and states is hard to crack
Mar 18, 2016 05:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Benjamin Franklin, the former US President, is reported to have said: In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. This statement couldnt be more true today. The recent row over...
'Command and control' banks have got ethics and culture all wrong
Mar 17, 2016 22:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The latest scandal engulfing Australias biggest bank has reverberated through the industry with NAB and the ANZ Bank instigating reviews of their life insurance businesses. Earlier this year ANZ was charged with fixing...
Trashing the brand: ANZ and CBA could pay a high price for choosing profit over people
Mar 17, 2016 22:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The recent CBA and ANZ scandals show that the big banks fail to understand the long-term pay off from investing in their relationships with people over short-term profit. ANZ stands accused of unconscionable conduct and...
Why new US visa rules are bad news for Europe and the Iran nuclear agreement
Mar 17, 2016 08:24 am UTC| Law
You are not authorized to travel to the United States. Scheduled to speak at the International Studies Associations Annual Convention in Atlanta the following week, I stared at my computer screen in utter disbelief at...
Changes to competition laws may hurt consumers
Mar 17, 2016 05:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The government has gone the full Harper on the misuse of market power laws. This means that the law will no longer be about misuse of market power. It also means consumers may be the losers. If the government accepts...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects