{"id":25086,"date":"2014-06-12T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=25086"},"modified":"2014-06-12T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:40:08","slug":"should-osborne-bring-himself-to-book-for-market-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/06\/12\/should-osborne-bring-himself-to-book-for-market-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Osborne bring himself to book for market abuse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused by the following FT headline this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-12-at-06.35.33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25089\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-12 at 06.35.33\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-12-at-06.35.33.png\" width=\"501\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-12-at-06.35.33.png 501w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-12-at-06.35.33-300x25.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-12-at-06.35.33-200x17.png 200w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-12-at-06.35.33-500x43.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have nothing against new rules against market abuse; indeed, I'd welcome them. But it did occur to me that Osborne might have to bring himself to account if he introduced such rules.<\/p>\n<p>After all, who has inflated the stock markets by failing to control the proper use of\u00a0quantitative easing? He has.<\/p>\n<p>And who has created a housing bubble? He has.<\/p>\n<p>And who has deflated wages and productivity by forcing people into marginal employment and unprofitable self employment? He has.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to market abuse the rules had better be tight or the Chancellor is in trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was amused by the following FT headline this morning: &nbsp; I have nothing against new rules against market abuse; indeed, I&#8217;d welcome them. But<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/06\/12\/should-osborne-bring-himself-to-book-for-market-abuse\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}