These are my links for March 2nd through March 3rd:
- FT.com / Companies / Banks - RBS awards chairman £1.5m in share options - The insanity continues
What is the problem with people working for a salary?
- FT.com / Companies / Financials - Terra Firma writes off half of EMI buy - You can't do this for long and still pay your debts
The corporate debt crisis has still to burst
- Going Japanese | AccMan - You know you've made it as a blogger when your blog is translated into Japanese
Well done Dennis!
- BBC NEWS | Business | UK 'is losing £4bn tax offshore' - Now the BBC has it...
- Tax havens: Time to act by Richard Murphy - 02 Mar 2009 - In case you want a bit more by me on tax havens - this is me talking about tax haven risk on AccountingWEB
- Bloomberg.com: Tax havens cost £4 billion a year - The news spreads
- State-funded banks face tax-avoidance inquiry - Times Online - The Sunday Times picks up the TUC research I did on tax haven subsidiaries - without crediting me or the TUC
What the heck - the message is getting out there
- So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen: is it game over for Swiss banks | - Nick Mathiason on top form showing that banking secrecy is dying fast
- FT.com / Companies / Media - ITV and Five poised to transmit bleak picture - This is unsurprising
We have to find a way to pay for media without promoting destruction of the planet through the excess advertising promotes
Another sector needing a new business model I am afraid
- FT.com / Companies / Technology - Rogue code led to Gmail shutdown - It's gratifying to know I'm not the only one with coding problems....
- FT.com / Companies / Banks - Swiss meet US in crucial week for bank secrecy - Switzerland’s justice minister will on Monday meet her US counterpart in a crucial week in UBS’s efforts to fight attempts to reveal to US authorities more names of rich American clients with undeclared accounts.
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf’s meeting with Eric Holder, the new US attorney-general, comes amid belated attempts by Bern to counter the impact of the US legal onslaught against Switzerland’s biggest bank and, more broadly, hallowed bank secrecy.
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