I usually ignore right wing blogs, at least when commenting here, for one good reason; they seem so irrelevant given their somewhat loose grasp of
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The FT has reported: Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank on Thursday agreed to buy back up to $14.5bn of auction-rate securities and pay
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The following letter in the Jersey Evening Post is too good not to reproduce. I do so with permission of the author: From Jean Andersson.
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Here’s another classic from the Institute for Fiscal Studies: To discourage investors from hiding their wealth in foreign tax havens, the authors recommend exempting interest
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The latest edition of the American Interest carries an article about corruption by TJN’s director John Christensen co-written by TJN consultant Nicholas Shaxson and Raymond
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The FT has reported: Senior executives at UBS, the Swiss bank being investigated by US authorities, knew some of their bankers had acted in a
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The Guardian has reported: The former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra skipped bail yesterday and fled to exile in Britain, claiming he could not expect
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The FT has reported that: The “widespread abuse” of a £300m ($575m) tax break for some temporary workers is under attack by the Treasury, which
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The follwoing comes from the Greenpeace International website. As I contributed to the report “Conning the Congo” to which it refers, I’m happy to reproduce
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