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Economic Roundup, Friday 20th March 2009

20Mar09 – 14:17

First up let's start with people at Barclays, your corresondent reckons that they will rue the day they chose the Sultan's shekel over the Queen's shilling. For now they seem desperate to raise cash and have got in almighty scrap with the Guardian over tax avoidance. Sunny has more.
OPEC have announced that they will not [...]

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Economic Roundup, Friday 13th March 2009

13Mar09 – 14:20

Welcome to a world where Bill Gates is once again the worlds richest man, and Bernie Madoff is about to get his comeuppance.

We'll start this week with news of bad times for the worlds billionaires, apparently this crisis has destroyed 45% of the world's wealth (assuming it actually existed in the first place) and hardest [...]

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Torynomics = Fail

06Mar09 – 00:58

The latest news is that the Bank of England has begun quantitative easing and right on time Iain Dale has chipped in with his viewpoint and the favourite Tory comparison to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe and of course 1920's Germany. He says:
No one has ever shown, to my knowledge, any instance where printing money has led [...]

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Economic Roundup, Friday 20th February

20Feb09 – 13:55

This week's world of finance has left your correspondent spoiled for bullet points:

Once again bankers bonuses made the news with the treasury stomping on bonuses at RBS, admirable stuff but one wonders if HM Treasury could have been a little more decisive.
We brought you news of Stanford International Bank from the blogosphere, since then it [...]

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