The Independent carries the following, absurd, report this morning: Benefit cheats will face increased jail terms of up to 10 years in a crackdown on
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Bob Diamond’s onto something with this idea for global regualtion
I had a double take at a story in the FT this morning: Bob Diamond — the former head of Barclays who tried to buy Lehman
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Venn diagrams for our times: libertarianism
Venn diagrams for our time: political opposition
You couldn’t make it up: Barclays sponsoring the Guardian’s international development award
This is from today’s Guardian: You really couldn’t make it up: Barlcays, the bank that tried to create a tax haven in Ghana, sponsoring an
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Venn diagrams for our times: Neoliberalism
David Cameron says tax havens are dead. Let me assure him, secrecy jurisdictions are not
When I was co-authoring ‘Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works’ (Cornell Studies in Money) with Ronen Palan and Christian Chavagneux we faced a dilemma. It was that no one
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David Mitchell on the Westminster Consensus
I have already blogged on the Westminster Consensus today. David Mitchell wrote about it, without using the name, in the Observer today, saying: But ultimately,
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