I’ve just voted in the general election. That’s possible as I have a standing postal vote. In Norfolk South West the choice was easy. Lib
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Raise income tax by 6p in the pound, UK told | Business | The Guardian . According to the Guardian: Britain should raise income taxes
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Mervyn King warned that election victor will be out of power for a generation, claims economist | Business | The Guardian . Mervyn King is
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Nick Clegg espouses two ideas from this blog on the leader’s debate. The first is an extra 10% tax on banks. The second is to
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Listening to the leader’s debate. Cameron is really mad. Try the logic: 1) He’ll cut government spending. This will reduce the size of the state
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Jersey Finance ‚Äòis good value’ ¬ª Business ¬ª This Is Jersey. As the Jersey Evening Post reports: JERSEY Finance has rejected criticism that it does
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More American Expatriates Give Up Citizenship – NYTimes.com. Fascinating report: Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans
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Yesterday, the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved S. 2971, Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which included policy language on extractive industry transparency that parallels
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As the FT reports this morning: “Two parliaments of pain” is the phrase used by the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies to describe what is
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