The choice is stark but I have little doubt that public revulsion at giving the banks billions to let them carry on as before will
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Accountancy Age has reported that: The latest Deloitte survey of finance directors’ outlook reveals the number of companies looking at moving their corporate base outside
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So RBS, HBOS and Lloyds are falling into partial sate control today: give it a week or two and they will be nationalised. I don’t
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Two weeks ago the idea of nationalising the world’s banking system seemed absurd. Now the UK has offered to subscribe for preference shares giving it
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The cheek of this article in the Jersey Evening Post is staggering: THE governments of major European banking centres are to be asked if they
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The FT has just published this. London equities tumbled on Friday extending the FTSE 100’s decline to five-consecutive days during which the senior index lost
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People are asking me a simple question at the moment: why are we bailing out the banks when ti seems that the banks have done
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I was on the Guardian’s blog late last night saying: In the single biggest spend by any chancellor of the exchequer ever, Alistair Darling has
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Memo To: Dave Hartnett, HMRC From: Richard Murphy, Tax Research LLP Date: 8 October 2008 Subject: Bank equity and structured finance Dear Dave I’ll trust
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