PETER OBORNE: War on a class already taxed to the hilt | Mail Online. Oborne attacks Labour for raising tax on the middle class. But
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Private equity firms using company debt to enrich themselves, says report | Business | guardian.co.uk . From the Guardian: Private equity firms are increasingly saddling
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The following comes from Anthony Painter but is just far, far too good not to reproduce: Many economists, commentators and bloggers have been warning about
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Moody’s sees no threat to UK top rating | Reuters . After all the bulls**t from the City, top lawyers, the Big 4 and the
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FT.com / UK / Economy & Trade – Investors take fright at ‘fiscal fiction’ . The markets have done what they said they would, almost
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It’s interesting to note what is happening in banking as the financial crisis develops. The Bank of England has noted the following for the third
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BBC News – Darling ‘must cut £36bn’, IFS think tank says. The sort of right wing drivel that the BBC now loves to put out
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The Treasury has published its review on the need for a Financial Transaction Tax. This is my take on the forty page document.

Swissinfo report: The private banking arm of British bank HSBC in Geneva has filed a criminal complaint against a former employee who allegedly stole client
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