FT.com / Companies / Financial Services – Opposition grows to ‘two-tier’ share plan. Opposition was growing on Sunday to radical proposals from Lord Myners, City
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FT.com / Media – Axe hangs over The Observer. For the sake of ensuring the survival of something like balance in the press – I
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I’ve been having a bit of a ding-dong with Tom Worstall on the Liberal Conspiracy site. As a result of a comment I made he
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Defending public sector pensions | ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC. Common sense from the TUC, inclduing: Particularly strange is the call
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How Common Is Offshore Tax Evasion? – The Wealth Report – WSJ. Now, there is evidence that offshoring was far more common in the past
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U.S., Switzerland Reach Agreement on UBS Tax Suit (Update1) – Bloomberg.com. The U.S. and Switzerland reached an agreement in principle to settle a Justice Department
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FT.com / Middle East – Caymans court orders freeze on $9bn. Perhaps the IoD would like to explain how the Cayman connection has in this
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FT.com / Lex / Financial services & property – Ireland’s bad banks. The Irish government has outlined a scheme for its bad bank agency Wouldn’t
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FT.com / Companies / Banks – Tarp banks award billions in bonuses. Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, which lost $55bn in 2008, between them paid 1,400
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