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The Crosby no show
As bankers once again sat in the stocks today, grilled by the politicians who are also not above reproach for precipitating the crunch, one man from a third liable party fell on his silver-edged...
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Stanford will not be the last
With his neoprene grin and overly welcoming demeanour with WAGs, many things about Sir Allen Stanford are instantly unlikeable. But until today he was just a crass American ‘sports fan’. Now he’s in a...
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Make hay
Some people are arguing (usually from across the Commons benches) that Britain has become too heavily reliant on its financial services sector. As we headed, blissfully unaware, into this maelstrom,...
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Round the houses
It’s becoming clear that, over the last decade, house prices have been wildly and unsustainable high. The news from Nationwide today that house prices have fallen 18 per cent in the last year is both...
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The kids aren’t alright
In the summer of 1978, a group of young Conservatives from Hendon answered an emergency call to meet near the Welsh Harp reservoir in North London. Although 100 were invited, less than 20 turned up,...
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Special relationship? For one of them at least
Mr Brown is so important, so FDR reincarnated, that he today became the first European leader to meet the man with the Midas touch, president Barack Obama. So taken was Mr Obama by Gordon Brown’s...
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A licence to print money
Well no, actually. The amount of paper cash wont actually rise from the current c. £40bn mark after the MPC’s decisions to embark on quantitative easing . The money created instead will be flooded...
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Government leaves customers out in the cold
So the government acted slowly and the treasury foolishly with its bungled nationalisation of Northern Wreck. You’ll forgive me if I refrain from gasping and holding my cheeks in disbelief. It has...
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The Apprentice: contestant preview
That time of year has arrived, so wondrously coincidental with the coming of spring flowers. The Apprentice is back. What difference a year makes. This time in 2008, Alan Sugar was still banging on...
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Darling’s halfway house needs repossessing
Why, why, has the botch of the Dunfermline cost the taxpayer a potential £1.5bn? The chancellor Alistair Darling today said that the stricken building society would have needed between £60m and £100m...
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