Last week the Labour Party set out plans to raise corporation tax as a way of funding additional spending on education. Corporate tax rates have been cut aggressively since 2010. School funding is being squeezed. A better-educated workforce would be good for economic growth. This looks like a win-win policy.
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Ireland’s shadow banking industry is among the largest in the world at 1,400 per cent of the country’s GDP, a new study has claimed.
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The global market sell-off continued on Wall Street after European exchanges fell for the second straight day because of the rising geopolitical tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
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Alcohol marketing appeared on screen once every other minute during broadcasts of the European Championships last summer, a new study has found.
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The chart accompanying this article highlights the dramatic rise in the price of bitcoin, the virtual, digital currency, since 2009. Encryption techniques regulate the generation of bitcoin units that can be used in the transfer of funds.
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Gambling is getting easier. Twenty years ago a teenager hoping to grow his pocket money on the betting markets would have been faced with the hostile gaze of a betting shop cashier.
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Traditional wealth managers do not always merit their high fees, says the City regulator. Computers could do just as well
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