{"id":3170,"date":"2009-02-18T13:32:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T11:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/18\/my-delicious-bookmarks-for-february-18th-2\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T13:32:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T11:32:24","slug":"my-delicious-bookmarks-for-february-18th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2009\/02\/18\/my-delicious-bookmarks-for-february-18th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My del.icio.us bookmarks for February 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for February 18th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accountancyage.com\/accountancyage\/news\/2236579\/solicitors-taxing-concerns\">Solicitors&rsquo; taxing concerns - Accountancy Age<\/a> - The Law Society consulted me on this - asking if I&#039;d now dropped my opposition to cash accounting in view of the credit crisis\n<p>My response was blunt - if solicitor&#039;s could not manage their tax payments they should not be in practice, I said<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/444f98b8-fd25-11dd-a103-000077b07658.html\">FT.com \/ Asia-Pacific - China urges west to establish &lsquo;bad banks&rsquo;<\/a> - We don&#039;t need them - we already have them\n<p>Read what I&#039;ve written today<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/e310cbf6-fd4e-11dd-a103-000077b07658.html\">FT.com \/ US \/ Politics &amp; Foreign policy - Greenspan backs bank nationalisation<\/a> - &quot;The US government may have to nationalise some banks on a temporary basis to fix the financial system and restore the flow of credit, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, has told the Financial Times.&quot;\n<p>It always worries me when I agree with Greenspan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article5755718.ece\">Gordon Brown promises new curbs on bank bonuses - Times Online<\/a> - Brendan Barber, the TUC General Secretary, said: &ldquo;Whatever the legal niceties, the real question remains: why do bankers need bonuses to do their jobs properly when the rest of us are happy to put in a good day&rsquo;s work for a straight day&rsquo;s pay?&rdquo;\n<p>Precisely<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.accmanpro.com\/2009\/02\/18\/a-razzie-for-obfuscating-pwc\/\">A razzie for obfuscating PwC | AccMan<\/a> - PwC earns a razzie for Best Crafted BS of the Week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUSLH21183520090217\">PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - Feb 17<\/a> - DARLING TO BOLSTER TREASURY RANKS WITH REDUNDANT CITY BANKERS\n<p>&quot;Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling is looking to hire up to 70 bankers who lost their jobs in the credit crunch in an effort to boost the Treasury&#039;s relationship with the City. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>They wrecked the City. Now let&#039;s let them have a go at ruining the country. Is that the logic?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/feb\/16\/climate-change-recession\">The World Bank: From crisis to opportunity<\/a> - How we deal with the global recession will make all the difference to whether we avert the dangers of an even more ominous disaster: global warming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for February 18th from 00:17 to 13:18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","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=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}