A perceptive blogger recently asked the question ‘To Whom Do We Owe This Money, Exactly?’ It was right to do so. It comes to the
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The FT reports: US Senate investigators probing the financial crisis will refer evidence about Wall Street institutions including Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank to the
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This press release, supposedly from GE in the US is doing the rounds. Shame it is a hoax: Fairfield, CT, 13th April, 2011— GE CEO
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The BBC has reported that HSBC set up a Guernsey-based company to reduce tax on profits from funding National Health Service hospitals provided under the
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1,000 economists (with me included in that number) have written to the G20 and Bill Gates to call for a financial transaction tax. We said:
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As the Guardian reports: Labour are releasing a 16-page dossier setting out “the hidden reality of David Cameron’s health reforms”. It identifies five main flaws
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I have a habit of tackling right-wing libertarian extremists in the UK – who seem to have taken a dislike to me as a result.
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Southern Cross is one of the UK’s largest providers of care homes. It has 754 in all with 37,600 beds. For many those beds are
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The US edition of Nick Shaxsons’ book Treasure Islands was launched yesterday. Senator Carl Levin spoke at the launch, saying: Speech on Offshore Tax Havens
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