From the FT: With the contrast between the opulent lifestyles of the rich and the slow improvement of basic living conditions for the poor fomenting
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I think I’ve made enough Airfix kits, cooked enough, played enough games and generally been Dad enough to have a few minutes playing with my
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In case I forget — and given that I plan to stop for the holiday some time this afternoon — Happy Christmas!

The Tax Justice Network has posted the following, which I reproduce with their permission. It seems like a suitable reflection for the Christmas holiday: We
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It seems right to juxtapose two articles in the FT over the last couple of days. First this: Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, already under
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To have the FTSE at near enough 6,000 yesterday makes no sense to me. The last time it was at this level — and the
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As the Tax Justice Network notes this morning in a blog from which, with their permission, the following is copied, the Financial Times is running
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In this interview, Stanford’s Professor Joseph A. Grundfest talks to Charlie Munger, vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The interview apparently dates from about December 2008) but
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As the FT reports: New York prosecutors accused Ernst & Young of helping Lehman Brothers engage in a “massive accounting fraud” by approving a move
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