This from a blog containing a lot of good stuff on Naked Capitalism: Dick Fuld reportedly spends much of his days allegedly wondering why he
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A Financial Transparency Tax for the UK
John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network and I were musing on the state of the world yesterday when it occurred to us that now
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Local banks are on their way
The move towards local banking relevant to the needs of the communities fo Britain is growing apace. The FT has reported: Kent county council has
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The time for nationalisation is nigh
The FT has noted: Hundreds of thousands of homeowners hoping to see a major reduction in their mortgage payments in the new year, after the
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Goodbye Swiss banking secrecy
As the FT has reported today: Considering it came less than two months after the last occasion when thousands of UBS shareholders assembled to hear
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Dealing with the banks
I appreciated John Kay’s article in the FT this morning, of only because I agree with much of it. He says: Nationalised financial institutions have
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Give us credit unions
Search hard in the PBR and there is stuff worth reading. Take this: The Government is also planning to reform the legislation governing cooperatives and
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Farewell Granite
As the FT has reported: The vehicle that funded Northern Rock’s ambitious expansion of mortgage lending has been cut loose by the state-run bank –
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Shareholder interest is a thing of the past
The Barclays Bank fiasco, of it accepting an offer of funding from Middle East investors at an interest rate of 14%, at a tax cost
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