Letters: Despite the mistakes, we need bankers | Business | The Guardian . There’s been an amazing response to the letter of which I was
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Letters: We need wholesale reform of the banks
Letters: We need wholesale reform of the banks | Business | The Guardian . From this morning’s Guardian: As Jill Treanor reports (Anger escalates over
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Now tell me there’s no case for a financial transaction tax
FT.com / Companies / Banks – RBS pays more than 100 staff a £1m bonus. The FT notes: Royal Bank of Scotland admitted on Thursday
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Icesave repayment talks collapse
FT.com / Europe – Icesave repayment talks collapse. The FT notes: Talks have collapsed between Britain, the Netherlands and Iceland about repayment of £3.4bn (€3.8bn)
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No turning back to boom & bust banking: a new banking settlement for the 21st century
Compass has published a report on banking with the above title. It’s proposals are: Policy 1: Making the bankers’ bonus windfall tax permanent Policy 2:
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Trades in Greek Debt Add to Country’s Financing Burden
Trades in Greek Debt Add to Country’s Financing Burden – NYTimes.com. To reiterate what I’ve just blogged the NYT says: Bets by some of the
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Financial transaction taxes defend democracy
FT.com / FT’s rolling global market overview – Worries over Greece send euro tumbling. The FT notes: Action in the forex markets triggered a fresh
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RBS – time to ask the big questions
I’ve blogged about RBS and its problems form the time before it was almost nationalised. The issue does not go away. As the Guardian notes:
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A wake-up call from Vultures
Debtonation » Blog Archive » A wake-up call from Vultures . Ann Pettifor in fine form: In the international financial system, the Rule of Law
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