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• Windfall by Charlotte Boyett-Compo

  
  Bitten by Books — Authority: 145
  The story begins with Gillian Cree and her brother, Nick, on the run to avoid Gillian being forced into a marriage by the King. From the time she was a child, she was in love with the King’s brother, Prince Kaelan Hesar, and that love had been returned until they were separated, again by Kaelan’s brother. Gillian ...
  19 hours ago

• Alistair Darlings banking bonus tax is pushing City to tipping point

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  The Chancellors tax grab on bankers bonuses is pushing the City to "tipping point" as a destination of choice for the global financial services industry, a tax expert has said.
  1 day ago

• Paul Wilmott on Britain’s Windfall Banker Tax

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 633
  They actually did it in Great Britain... From the New York Times : In Britain the first shots have just been fired by Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the Exchequer, our very own, very unlikely Wyatt Earp. On Wednesday he introduced a windfall tax of 50 percent to be paid by banks on discretionary bonuses above ...
  2 days ago

• Pre-Budget report: Alistair Darlings bonus tax sends out global tremors

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  In his pre-Budget report, the Chancellor moved to assuage public anger over bank pay with a one-off tax on bonuses, prompting bankers to warn they would be driven abroad. We report on the reaction to the tax in other countries.
  4 days ago

• Windfall bonus tax

  
  Creative Destruction — Authority: 128
  Krishna Guha of the Financial Times asks, A Windfall Tax in the US? He gives a 14 point argument in favor of the proposition, then asks "well, what do you think?" I think - yes, absolutely. Also, make them all parade naked down Wall Street while we throw fruit at them.
  4 days ago

• Pre-Budget report: Londons City riven by bonus tax confusion and condemnation

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Forget about greed - condemnation and confusion were the prevailing sentiments in the City yesterday as the financial industry attempted to assess the ramifications of the Chancellors windfall tax on bankers bonuses.
  4 days ago

• Brits and French tax banker bonuses

  
  theCLog — Authority: 441
  Those wacky Europeans. They seem to think that big businesses should make an effort to show some public responsibility – or barring that, just a bit of respect for the peons. Yesterday, the British government announced that it would place a one-time 50 percent windfall tax on bankers’ bonuses that top 25,000 ...
  4 days ago

• UK’s richest man could make more than £1bn from carbon trading scheme

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 529
  Source: Click Green New analysis released by climate change NGO Sandbag has revealed that the UK’s richest resident, Lakshmi Mittal, CEO and major shareholder of the steel giant ArcelorMittal, could make over £1 billion between now and 2012 from his company’s participation in the EU’s Emissions Trading ...
  5 days ago

• Thank You For the Needy, the Needed, and the Greater Good.

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 125
  Last night a friend came by to announce to a few  Pie Night stragglers that he had received a financial windfall. This friend is a very kind person. He shares his time, his food, his belongings, and his loyal friendship with all of us, as well as those of lesser fortune. He offered up his windfall check to serve ...
  5 days ago

• Class back on the agenda?

  
  Welsh Ramblings — Authority: 418
  Old school "bread and butter" issues seem to be back on the agenda for the upcoming Westminster election. Todays expected announcement by Alistair Darling of a one-off tax on bankers bonuses is something Plaid Cymru, the trade unions, the SNP, the Greens, some Liberal Democrats and some Labour backbenchers have been ...
  6 days ago

• Bankers renegotiating pay deals to avoid windfall tax on bonuses

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Bankers are renegotiating their contracts with employers in an attempt to dodge the Chancellors threatened super-tax on bonuses.
  6 days ago

• Take That to the Bank!

  
  The Ben Lomond Free Press — Authority: 137
  If any readers are offended by bad language look away now. So investment bankers are in a state of high dudgeon about their bonuses being subject to a one-off windfall tax? Over the last few days I’ve heard some slimeballs on the radio attempting to defend these greedy ungrateful bastards. “The problem is that ...
  6 days ago

• No Such Thing As A TARP Windfall

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 478
  “President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession” until more Americans are back at work… To pay for the new programs, the administration is citing the Treasury Department’s report on Monday ...
  6 days ago

• Companies are wearily reaching the conclusion that the UK is a bad risk

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Much of the regulatory initiative this year has been about forcing banks to take risk management more seriously.
  6 days ago

• They finally arrested them ! Now you, doomers, can stop talk all day long about Greatest Ponzi scheme

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 540
  MONTREAL - Police in Quebec are dismantling an organization that allegedly swindled seniors out of their retirement savings. The RCMP is hoping to arrest 16 people at various locations in and around Montreal. The Mounties said at a news conference today the ring used classified ads, the Internet and word of mouth to ...
  6 days ago

• Pre-Budget report: David Cameron signals support for tax on bank bonuses

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  David Cameron has signalled that bankers cannot rely on the Conservatives to fight their corner if the Chancellor announces a raid on pay in the pre-Budget report.
  6 days ago

• Canadian Musicians May Get A Windfall

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 135
  Pirates against pirates… You got to admire the Canadian Recording Industry Association… after they fleeced us for buying blank CDs , they’ve come up with a new way to get money into someone’s pocket. Members of the Canadian Recording Industry Association , including the Big Four (Warner Music Canada, Sony ...
  6 days ago

• Eventer, Fox hunt trained

  
  Equine Now Horses for Sale — Authority: 182
   Registered American Trakehner. Daughter by Windfall PG who was the bronze medalist in the 2004 Olympics in eventing. Out of Domenglein by Gideon. This mare has been bred and has a nice colt by Hennessey. She has now been under saddle for most of the year and is showing local Hunters. Schooling her lead changes she ...
  6 days ago

• A windfall tax on bankers will damage the economy

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 123
  Countries trade on their reputations. It is not just the number of eager, materialistic consumers that causes businesses to invest in one country as opposed to another. The hospitality of the host nation – and especially its government – is also of huge significance.   Two of the most the attractive features ...
  1 week ago

• An alternative to a windfall tax on banks

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 440
  The government is now trying to work out some sort of windfall tax on banks, which is a bit daft - they shouldnt have bailed them out in the first place, but we are where we are. Now, as we all well know, people defend The Worst Tax Of All, i.e. VAT, by saying a) It is borne by the consumer and doesnt hurt the ...
  1 week ago

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