a curving path

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.

Yet in making an occult line on my chart, to indicate this rise from a depth at present beyond estimate, I by no means meant it as a mark for shoal water in which navigation is concerned.

Those pink-satin evening slippers simply lose all their display value when you stick those red-kid bed-slippers right up ferninst them that way.