Not my title, but the title of a programme I took part in broadcast on Radio Scotland on Monday. It looks at the ethics of
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Martin Wolf has one of his regular, and insightful, comment columns in the Financial Times this morning. It is entitled “Britain’s experiment in austerity”. If
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The Times has reported (from behind its paywall): The British taxpayer is to underwrite a loan of £160 million to support a Caribbean tax haven
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The FT reports: US companies have announced share buy-backs at the fastest pace since the fall of Lehman Brothers as companies search for ways to
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Markets can be of great benefit. That’s true of futures markets as well as the more common and garden variety. Futures market can reduce risk
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Somehow there’s little surprise in the news that the Guardian reports that: Financiers in the City of London provided more than 50% of the funding
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We’re pleased that Bono, in an open letter to President Sarkozy published in Le Monde 27 Jan, calls out for transparency of tax reporting from
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There is something of a coincidence about articles by Paul Mason ( of Newsnight) in the Guardian and Neil Clark in The First Post Daily
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A new report from Global Financial Integrity finds that the drug trade is the single largest component, followed by counterfeiting: WASHINGTON, DC — Illicit trade
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