The EU’s committee of finance ministers is called ECOFIN. It met today and considered a European financial transaction tax. The resulting press release is here.
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It’s boring to come back to the subject of comments again, but it seems I must. It was claimed by someone yesterday that my moderation
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The Sunday Business Post in Ireland had a story this week saying: Senior government officials were advised ahead of the last budget that Ireland’s perception
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The FT notes that Citigroup is at the centre of a dispute among analysts and accounting experts over whether it should set aside funds to
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Gideon Rachman in the FT says: The vanity of economists needs to be challenged. Above all, their claim to scientific rigour — buttressed by models
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The FT notes that Barclays will today confirm Bob Diamond, head of its fast growing investment bank, as its next chief executive. I suppose we
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