The FT has reported that: Crude oil prices jumped $25 a barrel on Monday – the largest one-day rise – as financial investors betting on
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These are my links for September 22nd: Call for plan to protect savings » Business » News » This Is Jersey – Those who live
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I have an article on the Guardian’s Comment is Free site. Entitled ‘Making the havens open’ it argues that the current financial crisis highlights the
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What struck me most forcibly last week was that as someone with net deposits (mortgage excluded) in banks I was lending banks cash when they
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The last week has seen the governments of the Anglo-Saxon world bail out capital to an unimagined degree. There will be a cost. Some are
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The FT has reported that: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the last surviving big investment banks on Wall Street, have become regulated banks. In a
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I know why US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wants to pump $700 billion into the US banks. I suspect he’s right: there is no alternative
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The Independent had this from Ken Livingstone: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher dismantled the financial regulatory system that had given us a generation of stability,
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These are my links for September 21st: Tax Justice Network: On the bailout – Critical analysis