The Guardian is doing well with its blogs today. Seamus Milne has a great one on the growing poverty gap in the UK. As he
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One-eyed corruption hunting
A good blog by Alex Cobham in the Guardian yesterday. As he, rightly, argues, if you define corruption as only taking place in the public
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Jersey’s ticking clock
The Jersey Evening Post reported yesterday (sorry, no permalink and reproduced in the public interest as a result) that: THE Treasury department has 18 months
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Non dom wants to finace Labour
Accountancy Age has reported: Non-domiciled steel billionaire Swaraj Paul has pledged to finance the election campaign of Gordon Brown if the prime minister calls a
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Tax haven UK – 4 – Never file a set of accounts
One of the chief characteristics of a tax haven is that it provides a secrecy space – an opportunity for something to happen about which
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Risk is unevenly distributed ignorance
I wrote about the problems created by excess liquidity and the diversification of risk yesterday. So too did John Kay in the FT. He said:
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Would a little less liquidity and a bit more responsibility help?
The Guardian and many others report on Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund losses this morning: The viability of elaborate computer-driven hedge funds came under the microscope
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Fraud needs tax havens to survive
According to Channel Register yesterday: research figures published by accounting firm BDO Stoy Hayward, [show] there were 141 business frauds (reflecting a 42 per cent
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Tax Haven UK – 3 – Nominees
I’m running an occasional series on why the UK is a tax haven. I’ve already dealt with the domicile rule and the fact UK companies
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