These are my links for August 15th:

  • Merrill's Luck Proves Unlucky For Britain – Forbes.com – This will come back to haunt Merrill Lynch and the City in the year's to come.
  • Devotion to cheques stalls digital progress – Accountancy Age – "Technology has presented the opportunity to effectively eliminate cheques, but many customers like the option of being able to write a cheque, and struggle to move away from it"

    Yes, that's me. And half my client base too, at least

  • Deloitte's Connolly takes home £5.7m – Accountancy Age – "John Connolly, UK senior partner and global chairman for Deloitte, has taken home £5.7m for the year, annual results released today reveal.

    In addition to Connolly's 22% rise in salary, a further 650 partners at the firm pocketed an average of £970,000 for the year to 31 May."

    And you wonder why they argue for lower taxes for the rich?

    But what I wonder is why the government asks people with such a rarified view of life for their opinion on anything.

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