My del.icio.us bookmarks for March 2nd through March 3rd

These are my links for March 2nd through March 3rd:

• FT.com / Companies / Banks – RBS awards chairman £1.5m in share options – The insanity continues

  What is the problem with people working for a salary?

• FT.com / Companies / Financials – Terra Firma writes off half of EMI buy – You can't do this for long and still pay your debts

  The corporate debt crisis has still to burst

• Going Japanese | AccMan – You know you've made it as a blogger when your blog is translated into Japanese

  Well done Dennis!

• BBC NEWS | Business | UK 'is losing £4bn tax offshore' – Now the BBC has it…
• Tax havens: Time to act by Richard Murphy – 02 Mar 2009 – In case you want a bit more by me on tax havens – this is me talking about tax haven risk on AccountingWEB
• Bloomberg.com: Tax havens cost £4 billion a year – The news spreads
• State-funded banks face tax-avoidance inquiry – Times Online – The Sunday Times picks up the TUC research I did on tax haven subsidiaries – without crediting me or the TUC

  What the heck – the message is getting out there

• So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen: is it game over for Swiss banks | – Nick Mathiason on top form showing that banking secrecy is dying fast
• FT.com / Companies / Media – ITV and Five poised to transmit bleak picture – This is unsurprising

  We have to find a way to pay for media without promoting destruction of the planet through the excess advertising promotes

  Another sector needing a new business model I am afraid

• FT.com / Companies / Technology – Rogue code led to Gmail shutdown – It's gratifying to know I'm not the only one with coding problems….
• FT.com / Companies / Banks – Swiss meet US in crucial week for bank secrecy – Switzerland’s justice minister will on Monday meet her US counterpart in a crucial week in UBS’s efforts to fight attempts to reveal to US authorities more names of rich American clients with undeclared accounts.

  Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf’s meeting with Eric Holder, the new US attorney-general, comes amid belated attempts by Bern to counter the impact of the US legal onslaught against Switzerland’s biggest bank and, more broadly, hallowed bank secrecy.