{"id":8537,"date":"2011-01-24T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T09:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/24\/its-not-what-the-banking-commission-thinks-that-matters\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T09:20:29","slug":"its-not-what-the-banking-commission-thinks-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/24\/its-not-what-the-banking-commission-thinks-that-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"It&rsquo;s not what the Banking Commission thinks that matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/jan\/22\/banking-commission-will-consider-breaking-up-biggest-banks\" target=\"_blank\">been lots of coverage of the thoughts<\/a> of Sir John Vickers who is chairing the UK&rsquo;s Banking Commission.<\/p>\n<p>He is rightly making noises about protecting the economy from investment banking \u2014 protection that is only possible by ring-fencing ordinary banking from such activity.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the good news.<\/p>\n<p>The bad news? This would have to get past Osborne \u2014 who is a young man with no future in politics after the next election but with ample opportunity to be bought out by banking once he&rsquo;s out of office for good.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s been lots of coverage of the thoughts of Sir John Vickers who is chairing the UK&rsquo;s Banking Commission. He is rightly making noises about<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/24\/its-not-what-the-banking-commission-thinks-that-matters\/\"><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":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}