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New faces of £50 banknote unveiled
The renowned 18th century business partnership of entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and engineer James Watt provides the historical figures to be…
ByDarth Vader knows the answer
This much detail is all available on the public record, so what more does Cheney want? One of the more…
BySuper-wealthy targeted in tax evasion campaign
An international campaign against tax evasion by the super-wealthy has been launched by tax authorities from 34 countries, which pledged…
ByWBrief: Swiss bank pay regs to be unveiled
Swiss financial regulator Finma will unveil rules this week on how Swiss bank can pay staff, the newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported,…
ByWBull: Mon, Liech, And removed from OECD list
European tax havens Monaco, Liechtenstein and Andorra have been removed from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s uncooperative tax…
ByWSJ: Wall Street stockbrokers waiving fees
The battle on Wall Street for top-producing stockbrokers is turning into a gold mine for some of their clients. The…
ByTax Special: The View from Switzerland
Spear’s consulted someone with a ringside seat for their view of the Swiss tax situation I t is important to…
ByRouting the hedgies
Expensive regulation already proven on a dramatic scale not to work at all frightens the hedgies The real point is…
ByNukes 'R' Us
Bolivia is a known supplier of uranium, but Venezuela? Of course, reports pertaining to WMD have been wrong before Lest…
ByMeet the UK's Deep Throat
The biggest scandal to rock British politics in 300 years was started by an American freelance writer in London. As…
ByScenes from Everyday Life. Right Now!
Do you have an anecdote about living in our times? We encourage readers to share them in the Comments section…
ByWBrief: UBS restates 08 results, reduces net profit
As presaged in its first quarter 2009 report, UBS has restated its annual results for 2008, producing a reduction in…
ByCantonal banks benefit from financial panic
Switzerland’s cantonal banks have been among the main beneficiaries in the private banking market over the course of the global…
ByExpenses and expressos
Anthony Steen MP is obsessed with coffee. He could talk about it until you felt he really didn’t need to…
ByCoping With It: Stubble
A new cartoon from the sharpest pen: Stubble
BySpying from the Bench?
Documents that indicate the former a Supreme Court Justice could have been a Soviet spy. New Cold War documents have…
ByFT: LSE loses £251m after Borsa write-down
The London Stock Exchange suffered a pre-tax annual loss of £251m after it was obliged to write down the accounting…
ByTimes: Japan’s GDP shrinks by fastest rate ever
Japan spent the first quarter of 2009 in its worst spiral of decline ever recorded, with GDP in the world’s…
ByGuardian: Shareholders revolt over pay at Shell
Shareholder anger over executive bonuses reached fever pitch when three blue chip companies – Shell, stockbroker Evolution and retailer Next…
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