These are my links for February 2nd through February 3rd:
- Local bonds are happening - This is debt with a purpose
Real saving. real investment. Real returns. Real pensions.
That's what we need
- FT.com / UK / Business - Tories warn of ‘too big’ banks - In which case they'll have to intervene in the market, split them up and create new transaction banks, housing banks, commercial banks and investment banks
Let's hope they do it
- FT.com / Europe - PM asks Iceland central bank chiefs to quit - It took a social democrat backed by the Left and Greens to bring about change
Why doesn't that surprise me?
- 02-02-2009 - Levin, Dorgan Question Repatriation Lobbying Effort ... - Carl Levin is a man of our times
He understands exactly the double speak of the offshore tax evaders - and takes them head on
As he does here, challenging a Rupert Murdoch propagated myth
- 'Tax haven Ireland' on Obama's hit list - And I say they're in a state of denial about it
Which really won't help them
- Construction: Fears for 1,000 jobs » News » This Is Jersey - Jersey's economy has been built on financial services and building offices for that sector
Now it is tanking
The builders want state aid
And there's no tax to pay it
Not a pretty prospect
- For Rescue Plan, Risks Are Vast in Revaluing Tainted Assets - NYTimes.com - “To date, the banks have stuck their heads in the sand,” said Lynn E. Turner, a former chief accountant for the Securities and Exchange Commission, “and demanded that they be paid the price of good apples for bad apples.”
- :: Manx Radio :: Isle of Man News :: - Isle of Man companies support Mugabe
What a surprise
- FT.com / World - Little magic left at leading law firms - The lawyers sowed the sees of their own destruction
Let's not cry too much
- Millions could lose out in online tax error | Self-Assessment | This is Money - This is the Revenue doing their level best to shoot themselves in the foot
This sort of basic error should not happen
- FT.com / Companies / Banks - Barclays’ credit rating downgraded - "Moody’s on Sunday night downgraded Barclays’ credit ratings, saying it expected the UK bank to record ”significant further losses” on credit-related writedowns."
Or to put it another way: they don't believe the accounts
- Davos: Don't let crisis breed more corruption - Forbes.com - Tax havens were not mentioned at Davos apparently
Funny that, in Switzerland
Funny that. amongst the assembled company
Do these people have any intention of reforming themselves? I do sometimes doubt it
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