The FT has reported: Iceland’s prime minister and central bankers were holding emergency talks with pension funds and banks on Sunday as the country looked
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The conditions for a bail out
The FT notes that: Alistair Darling was on Sunday considering a dramatic taxpayer-funded recapitalisation of Britain’s banks, amid signs of cross-party and central bank support
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It will be mainstream companies who fall over next
The FT has reported that Nearly half the European companies needing debt restructuring over the next year will be in the UK, according to a
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HMRC is looking to prosecute
The Sunday Mirror has reported that: Four celebrities at the heart of a £1billion Inland Revenue probe have been targeted in the biggest-ever inquiry into
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The next step :neuter tax havens / secrecy jurisdictions
The Observer editorial says today: No politician in Britain, the rest of Europe or the US has an answer to one basic question: how will
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Cabinet reshuffle – an outright disaster for Britain
I admit to being depressed by Gordon Brown’s cabinet reshuffle. It’s not the personalities. I find it quite possible to disagree with people and get
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Ireland undermines the German economy
Germany’s economy is threatened tonight by the failure of Hypo Real Estate Holding AG as emergency talks are held on a 35 billion-euro ($49 billion)
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My del.icio.us bookmarks for October 3rd
These are my links for October 3rd: Tax Justice Network: Citizens for Tax Justice on Wall Street subsidies – Time to end the subsidies I
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Swiss banking secrecy was never there to help the Jews
The Guardian perpetuated a popular and entirely incorrect myth about Swiss banking secrecy today. It said this secrecy was introduced in 1934 to protect German
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