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...Truss said the Treasury was absorbed by the “abacus economics of making sure that tax and spend add up”....
...In August, the prime minister told the FT that the finance ministry was obsessed with the “abacus economics of making sure that tax and spend add up”....
...Kwarteng’s call for a change of focus at the Treasury comes after criticism by prime minister Liz Truss of its “orthodoxy” and “abacus economics”....
...She is, however, critical of Treasury “orthodoxy”, claiming that growth has been choked off by high taxes and insisting, contrary to claims by Sunak, that cutting corporation tax rates will pay for itself...
...Truss eventually set out plans to reverse Sunak’s increase in corporation tax and national insurance, at a cost of about £30bn....
...And now it was slashing corporation tax....
...The official response was abrupt, and coming from the reserved and academic halls of central banks and abacus-obsessed finance ministries, unusually forthright....
...In 2006, he advised MMC Corporation, a conglomerate, on one of the country’s biggest-ever takeovers, a deal that became his calling card in the region....
...Saving Britain: How we Must Change to Prosper in Europe, by Will Hutton and Andrew Adonis, Abacus, RRP£8.99 In this passionately argued book, Labour peer Andrew Adonis and journalist Will Hutton argue that...
...Explaining his motivations for writing this book, he asks: “How could one remain a powerless spectator in a world where the CEOs of our largest corporations have turned themselves into public relations officers...
...And that has all sorts of implications… At Pioneer Investments’ Colloquia Series forum in Beijing, Jin Liqun, chairman of the board of supervisors at China Investment Corporation (CIC), gave us another...
...At the same time, the rise of big data within corporations is spurring companies to use the information they hold for much more than simple ad targeting....
...Tim Harford is an FT columnist and author of ‘Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure’ (Abacus)...
...was “surprised and concerned that no partner of PwC has been named” in the case, implying that the accountancy firm may have secretly agreed to admit culpability in return for the anonymity of a senior abacus...
...Here’s a fun bit of political science to ponder on Thursday — sorting the ideological positions of US corporations according to their board members’ donations....
...The chapter’s climax is the startling account of a leveraged investment trust called the Goldman Sachs Trading Corporation, that era’s version of a massive collateralised debt obligation....
...The monoline insurer found itself both investing and acting as the portfolio selection agent for Abacus 2007-AC1....
...The deal fulfils ambitions set out when Thomson Corporation bought Reuters in 2007 to use the UK group’s stronger global brand and network to expand the Canadian group’s professional divisions....
...In fact, gold and oil rule the top five exchange traded commodities products, according to data from Financial Research Corporation....
...Boorman decides that corporations are making his choices for him....
...“The corporations are stifling our lives,” he claims, but he refuses to develop how, why, whether this is new or whether it matters....
...A profit warning sent electrical components distributor Abacus Group down 22.2 per cent to 131½p....
...So it is instructive to note some of the recent share transactions at Urbium, the operator of City bars such as Apt, Abacus and Alibi, as well as the Tiger Tiger chain....
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