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• UK: Posen calls for bubble tax on homes [national property tax?]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Homeowners must be charged penalty taxes on their properties if the UK is to avoid a future housing crash, according to one of the Bank of Englands policymakers. Adam Posen, a member of the Banks Monetary Policy Committee, said that the Government should consider slapping extra taxes on British properties, suggesting ...
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• Posen calls for bubble tax on homes

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Homeowners must be charged penalty taxes on their properties if the UK is to avoid a future housing crash, according to one of the Bank of Englands policymakers.
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• Feudal Lords of Finance

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  In some influential circles, these questions are now asked: What’s wrong with high levels of inequality in general, and with having very rich bankers in particular? After all, human societies have survived the presence of extremely wealthy individuals in the past--in fact, some now argue, the presence of such a ...
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• Britain risks becoming the first country in the G10 bloc to risk capital flight and a full-blown debt crisis over coming months

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  The US investment bank said there is a danger Britain’s toxic mix of problems will come to a head as soon as next year, triggered by fears that Westminster may prove unable to restore fiscal credibility.“Growing fears over a hung parliament would likely weigh on both the currency and gilt yields as it would ...
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• Britain risks becoming the first country in the G10 bloc to risk capital flight and a full-blown debt crisis over coming months

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 136
  The US investment bank said there is a danger Britain’s toxic mix of problems will come to a head as soon as next year, triggered by fears that Westminster may prove unable to restore fiscal credibility. “Growing fears over a hung parliament would likely weigh on both the currency and gilt yields as it would ...
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• Letter: The British Economy

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  To the Editor:.
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• £80m spent on bailout consultants

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Focus of National Audit Office report is to be governments huge bill for seeking advice on HBOS and RBS rescue packages The Treasury is to be rebuked this week by the Whitehall watchdog for spending more than £80m on private consultants to advise them on the bailout of HBOS and the Royal Bank of Scotland. The ...
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• Big bank critic Willem Buiter takes job at Citigroup

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The economist who said banks that are "too big to fail [are] too big" has joined the biggest bank of them all.
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• Consumers repay their debt for a fourth consecutive month

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • UKs £228bn of unsecured debt has gone into reverse • Money supply shrank at 5.3% in the three months to October Britons repaid debt for a fourth consecutive month in October and at the fastest pace on record, the Bank of England said . The Bank also released other data showing the money supply is still ...
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• Hurray! Another little pet theory borne out in practice.

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 441
  As I have been saying for a while, e.g. here : ... what [quantitative easing] boils down to is commercial banks and government departments shuffling numbers on bits of paper (or on computer screens) around between themselves with little or no impact on the wider economy. From todays FT* : Key measures of ...
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• UK money printing not working

  
  Capitalists@Work — Authority: 131
  This is the latest analysis from the Bank of England, the money supply M4 measure fell 0.7% in October, month on month. This means that there is less money in the economy than before. As such it does not bode very well for future growth, whatever the politicians may be saying. Also it shows that either ...
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• British households repay record amount of debt in October

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  British consumers repaid the highest amount of unsecured credit on record in October, reducing their debt at twice the rate economists had expected.
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• EEF manufacturers group see credit crunch easing

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  Firms reporting that borrowing has become more expensive has fallen to the lowest level since the beginning of the credit crunch The end of the credit crunch is in sight, according to the EEF manufacturers organisation, which also urged the government not to choke off the recovery by ending its economic stimulus ...
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• Lloyds shareholders to sue over HBOS non-disclosure

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The Chancellor and the Governor of the Bank of England are facing legal action for allegedly failing to disclose the extent of taxpayer support for HBOS last year.
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• Treasury forced to reveal secret £62bn loan for banks

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  The Government only released details of the Bank of Englands secret emergency loans to two of Britains biggest banks because Whitehalls own spending watchdog was planning to reveal the bail-out week, two leading MPs have said.
  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 ...
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• The National Debt in a Nutshell

  
  Money as Debt also known as Credit — Authority: 100
  This petition to save the canal properties of Waterways stirred me to put as succinctly as possible why the National or Public Debt has reached its most heinous peak of abusing “public” for private enrichment. The National or “Public” Debt in a Nutshell A Mechanism for the Oppression of Their ...
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• 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. ...
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• END THE FED…. Then What? – The Transition to Sound Money

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 564
  “ Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back. “ - Josiah Stamp, former President of the Bank of England Originally published November 23, 2009 at ...
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• Alistair Darling defends secret £61.6bn emergency bank loans

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  • Chancellor said covert loans avoided widespread panic • Accusations that Lloyds shareholders were misled Alistair Darling today defended the decision to keep secret the £61.6bn of emergency loans handed to the Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS at the height of the financial crisis last year. The chancellor ...
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