Memo To: Dave Hartnett, HMRC From: Richard Murphy, Tax Research LLP Date: 8 October 2008 Subject: Bank equity and structured finance Dear Dave I’ll trust
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Look at the chart of the FTSE 100 today: First this says the markets are ignoring government interventions: that’s irrational. Second this chart shows the
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In April this year I wrote: sometime soon a FTSE 100 index at 6000 is going to appear as mad a reflection of economic reality
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Martin Hearson of ActionAid had the following letter in the Guardian today: Paul Collier is right that stemming capital flight from developing countries would provide
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I liked this from Simon Hoggart’s Commons Diary yesterday: The most startling remark came from the Rev Ian Paisley. The ancient turtle raised himself on
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You won’t find a much better analysis of the current crisis than the one issued by UNCTAD, here.

The Tyngewick Gawcott blog reproduces a letter from Mike Page of Portsmouth University that has appeared in the FT. It makes the case for abolishing
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It is staggering that the Treasury’s package for a banking bail out does not involve the appointment of directors to manage those banks will received
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These are my links for October 7th: Entrepreneurs look offshore in ‘mad state of panic’ – Accountancy Age – This is a very strange article
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