I guess it was going to happen one day. Someone called Andrew Brooks has taken offence at my comments on the decision of the UK
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Of course banks use tax havens for innocent purposes
From the Irish Independent: AIB’s stockbroking arm used black-listed tax havens to circumvent rules preventing it from buying and selling the bank’s shares, the bank’s
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Swiss secrecy laws had nothing to do with the Nazis
From the FT: Sir, Your correspondent writes, in his article about Swiss bank secrecy (“A vault unlocked”, March 24), that Swiss secrecy laws “date back
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Print it
The Guardian has reported: [I]n London, investors sent shockwaves through financial markets by shunning a £1.75bn auction of government gilts So on Monday Mervyn King
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Fiscal stimulus: Does Government debt really rule it out?
A seven day plan pre the G20
I’m blogging from the House of Commons where I am speaking at a meeting organised by PCS and War on Want on tax justice. I’ve
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Bloggers to Make History at G20 Summit
I admit the following is a press release but it’s a pretty good description of what I’ll be doing much of next week. A coalition
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We can afford a fiscal stimulus
For all practical purpose Mervyn King is a a civil servant. He’s also onbe who has over stepped the mark. Civil servants do not contradict
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Obama on tax havens
President Obama has said: We must crack down on offshore tax havens and money laundering. Now you could say that is remarkably little comment on
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