It’s G20 week. Many hopes have been pinned on it. Many — depressingly- hope it will fail. The braggers will be out i force later
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Many in tax havens / secrecy jurisdictions argue that the current world economic crisis started ‘onshore’. By that they mean in the UK, USA and
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The FT reports: Switzerland’s private banks have started to ban their top executives from travelling abroad, even to neighbouring France and Germany, because of fears
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A fascinating article in the FT this morning. It says: Thousands of British investors with up to £3bn stashed in secret Liechtenstein bank accounts will
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I have to say that without the Lib Dem Treasury team the world would be a worse place right now. Yesterday Matthew Oakeshott (a member
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I’m going to take a liberty a re-post a big part of someone else’s blog — partly because I know the author happily (and with
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There’s an important article in the Wall Street Journal today. It says: The Obama administration has finally come up with a plan to deal with
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I guess it was going to happen one day. Someone called Andrew Brooks has taken offence at my comments on the decision of the UK
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From the Irish Independent: AIB’s stockbroking arm used black-listed tax havens to circumvent rules preventing it from buying and selling the bank’s shares, the bank’s
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