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...Adair Turner, chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, reckons the gas hike is the equivalent of a “massive” carbon tax, of around $600-$950 a tonne....
...Adair Turner argues that after the 2008 financial crisis, the world’s banks are safer....
...Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit and Fixing Global Finance, by Adair Turner, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/RRP$29.95 Turner, former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, provides...
...Economists from Adair Turner to Ben Bernanke (in 2003) and Milton Friedman (1948) have argued that deficits could be financed by printing money rather than issuing government debt....
...It’s run by four friends – Matthew and Iain Pennington, Jack Adair-Bevan and Paûla Zarate – who cook from ingredients grown in the garden....
...The chairman of the Financial Services Authority fell out with Gordon Brown in 2005 as a government adviser on pensions and in 2009 labelled much financial activity in the City as “socially useless”....
...The Mail reported this morning that Baroness Vadera, one of Gordon Brown’s chief economic advisers, had written a paper in 2008 arguing that “getting Libor down is desirable”....
...Oh dear, not Adair Adair Turner has made no secret of where he sees the next step on his career path....
...Mark Carney 16/1 John Vickers 20/1 Kate Barker 20/1 Warwick Jones 20/1 John Footman 20/1 Peter Sands 22/1 Douglas Flint 25/1 Hector Sants 200/1 Gordon Brown...
...The report specifically cites a 2005 “Better Regulation Action Plan” announcement from then chancellor Gordon Brown, which trumpeted “not just a light touch but a limited touch”....
...And in a move that echoes Conservative criticisms of the regulatory structure put in place by Gordon Brown in 1997, Darling zeroes in on the “prickly and strained” relations between King and Adair Turner...
...labour-intensive and multi-jurisdictional cases …and there has been a lot more activity in the appeal tribunal, which will have been a drain on FSA resources,” says Angela Hayes, partner at law firm Mayer Brown...
...He confirms that Mr Brown tried and failed to replace him as chancellor in 2009 with Ed Balls....
...Back to the top ————————————————————————————- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon By Brad Stone Reprinted with permission from Transworld/ Bantam Press; Little, Brown....
...Shakespeare’s Local: Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extraordinary Pub, by Pete Brown, Macmillan, RRP£16.99 Brown is an unashamed beer nerd but by some happy twist of fate he’s also a fascinating...
...Last month, the London boutique Browns announced that US native Ruth Runberg, formerly of Barneys New York and Saks Fifth Avenue, was going to replace Erin Mullaney, another American, as buying director....
...This week, George Osborne, his current successor, abolished Mr Brown’s creation....
...Adair Turner, who became FSA chairman in September 2008, made this quite explicit in his review....
...Adair Turner, the FSA’s chairman, said he welcomed the changes....
...Gordon Brown can rest assured. Meanwhile here are some letters we stumbled upon today: Can’t vouch for their authenticity. To the National Bullying Helpline....
...Its appeal was to create rhetorical space for attacks on the current structure and Gordon Brown, its c hief architect....
...To be fair, the transactions levy was only one of four ideas Mr Brown put forward....
...institutions and the society they serve, writes UK prime minister Gordon Brown....
...What does Gordon Brown think of the tax? Gordon Brown added his support for a “a global financial transactions levy” or Tobin tax on Saturday as one way of protecting the global economy against banks....
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