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• Pre-budget report: The shadow of 1937

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  When Alistair Darling delivers his pre-budget report a week today , he will talk of the outlook for 2010, 2011, 2012 – a stream of years stretching far out into the next decade. But hanging over the entire ritual will be another year, not from the future but the past: 1937. That was the year Washington declared ...
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• Chancellor needs an extra £15bn, ITEM says

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The Chancellor needs to find an additional £15bn over the medium term if he is to meet government borrowing targets set out in the Budget, a respected group of economists has warned.
  9 hours ago

• Darling considers revealing lower and narrower banker pay bands

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Darling responds to critics of Walker bank review • Council for Financial Stability to meet in January The government is to consider setting "lower and narrower" pay bands for revealing banks top earners, Alistair Darling said last night. Darling is understood to be keen for banks to issue more information ...
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• Alistair Darling may go further in bank pay clampdown

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Alistair Darling has raised the prospect that in future banks will have to disclose how many of their employees are earning more than £500,000.
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• Morgan Stanley: UK could be first big economy to suffer major fiscal crisis

  
  News Benedict Brogan — Authority: 137
  Here’s one for George Osborne and Alistair Darling. Morgan Stanley Research Europe has just put out a note assessing the UK’s future prospects, and its findings are a timely addition to the hung parliament debate. One of its predictions for a surprise in 2010 is this: “UK becomes the first of the G10 to have ...
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• Banking on a green industrial revolution

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Idea of a national investment bank to steer economy towards low carbon future gains ground George Osborne is floating the idea of a green investment bank to get new technologies out of the lab and into new wealth-creating businesses. Vince Cable wants a national investment bank for infrastructure, financed with a ...
  2 days ago

• Plans to ease inheritance tax at risk

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Labour and Tories competed to lift the threshold, but need to cut budget deficit has led to a rethink Homeowners hoping to be freed from crippling levels of inheritance tax could be hit by new austerity measures being considered for inclusion in next weeks pre-budget report. Government sources say Alistair Darling, ...
  3 days ago

• Spending more is no solution

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Telegraph View: To escape from this fiscal black hole, real cuts are going to be needed.
  3 days ago

• Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling... the Beavis and Butt-head of Global Finance Markets

  
  The Final Redoubt — Authority: 438
  Fears are growing over Britains exposure to the financial turmoil in the stricken Arab state of Dubai. UK banks account for half the £60billion of global loans to the debt-laden emirate, new statistics show. State-controlled giant Royal Bank of Scotland has helped lead the charge, provoking fears that ...
  3 days ago

• Insurers almost religious in their devotion to settle Cumbria flood claims

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The rush for the high ground in Cumbria hasnt just been among its water-soaked residents.
  4 days ago

• Comfortable conservation and global warming

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  -- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own -- Energy efficiency will have to make the single most-important contribution if policymakers are serious about limiting greenhouse gas emissions and dampening growing demand for fossil fuels. Energy efficiency will not remove the need to invest ...
  4 days ago

• The sixty-third weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 150
  This prize goes to the dynamic combination of Alistair Darling and the BBC for the BBC headline "Recession worse than estimated" and the first lines of this report "Chancellor Alistair Darling will say in his pre-Budget report that the economy performed worse in 2009 than he first predicted, Treasury sources have ...
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• Fears of double-dip recession grow as Dubai crashes

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Debt crisis in millionaires playground could herald new phase in global financial meltdown Share prices in the City suffered their biggest fall since March today amid fears that a debt crisis in the millionaires playground of Dubai heralded a new phase in the global financial meltdown and a double-dip recession in ...
  5 days ago

• Name, shame, blame the bankers, if you like. But theyre the wrong target | Simon Jenkins

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Regulators have long been suckered by too big to fail. The Walker report has all the power of a feather duster Oh, Mr Brown, I loved that. Tickle me again, Mr Darling. Just there. A back rub, please, Sir David. A little oil here, Lord Phillips; a teeny whiplash from you, Lord Myners. And you, Mervyn King, perhaps ...
  5 days ago

• Bank reform: What a carve up!

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 164
  There is a direct link between this weeks revelation of the Bank of Englands secret £62bn loan to RBS and HBOS last October, and todays report from Sir David Walker on how banks should be governed. They are both inside jobs, momentous affairs of huge public importance yet where the shots are called by a select few. ...
  6 days ago

• Alistair Darling defends the Bank of Englands secret loans to RBS and HBOS

  
  PlayPolitical.com - Labour Party — Authority: 488
  
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• Too big to fail? Guerrilla central banking and the last resort

  
  UK News — Authority: 499
  Deciding it was safe to come clean because banks are now on a more even keel and the worst of the credit crisis is behind us, the Bank of England has told the nation that at the height of the turmoil it secretly lent Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS a colossal £62 billion, which is more than the entire British ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• What next for Jedward?

  
  Orange Celebrity Blog — Authority: 136
  Posted by Jane Murphy No! No! Noooooo! After two long months of Jedmania, everyone’s favourite rapping-and-jumping twins John & Edward have been cruelly voted off The X Factor in favour of contestants who can actually hold a tune. Honestly - what is the world coming to? Still, don’t despair: ...
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• Jedward - Labour and Conservatives jump on the bandwagon with X Factor themed political ads

  
  nick burcher — Authority: 511
  Last night (the magnificent) Jedward were voted off of the X Factor TV show. I have previously written about how the impact of the X Factor show has produced an echo and reached out far wider than the TV set - with enormous discussion being prompted on social sites like Twitter and Facebook. Another indication of ...
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