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...The UK urgently needs both a real, green national investment bank, and authentic, regional banks, like the nascent South West Mutual....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...Never mind that Apple was the world’s most valuable corporation, that it had sold more than a billion devices so far, and that it already had $145 billion sitting in the bank, with another $3 billion in...
...But this growth, he had long believed, would be a consequence of the multilayered Bitcoin computer code remaking many of the prevailing power structures of the world, including Wall Street banks and national...
...(Financial Times) Six banks sued over trustee roles: A group of big investors including Blackrock and Pimco are suing six different banks including Deutsche Bank and HSBC for their role as trustees of mortgage-backed...
...(Financial Times) “A US presidential task force has drafted recommendations that constitute a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Agency, according to people familiar with the recommendations....
...But, as Neil notes, things could have been worse without all that warehousing shenanigans from Goldman et al....
...The funds were in- vested heavily in U.S. home-mortgage-backed securities that had become nearly impossible to value....
...Selections by Jane Owen LITERARY NON-FICTION White Girls , by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural...
...Kate argues that Verleger’s view of a hypothetical Saudi et al response to lower prices and/or production is compelling, in that it doesn’t follow that more prolific US oil supply will mean lower global...
...Whether in the Catholic Church, the SEC, Nazi Germany, Madoff ’s funds, the embers of BP’s refinery, the military in Iraq, or the dog- eat- dog world of sub-prime mortgage lenders, the central challenge...
...And it lives on in all the Americans who’ve dropped everything to go some place they’ve never been and pull people they’ve never known from rubble, prompting chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A!”...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The Court has stayed all but the first-filed ERISA class action case (entitled Alvidres v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.)....
...As senior economist at Saudi Arabia’s National Commercial Bank she was the only woman among a workforce of 4,000 men, and in 2005 she became the first woman to head a Saudi bank when she co-founded Gulf...
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