By Larry Elliott in today’s Guardian: This, though, is an opportunity for global as well as domestic reform. In the past, any efforts at cracking
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Vince Cable says shut tax haven operations
Bloomberg report: The U.K. Treasury should tell banks receiving investment from the government to close their operations in offshore tax havens, said Vince Cable, a
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Nationalisation or collapse
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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Corporate irresponsibility
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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Thank goodness they’re going to appoint directors
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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A strategy for our nationalised banks
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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Only on strict condition
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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Nationalise. Now.
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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The banks must be forced to stop their tax abuse
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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