Banking on Bernanke
Picking a successor for Alan Greenspan, who led the Federal Reserve for 18 years, was an easy job for George Bush. There was really one man for the job.
Ben Bernanke, wh...
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Councils get two-year finance settlement
Councils in England are to receive above-inflation rises in government funding for the next two years, it was announced today.
The announcement came with a warning that...
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Pension credits under fire
The government's policy on council tax benefit and pension credit is failing the UK's pensioners, leading charities said today, as official figures showed thousands had m...
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Meet the man the Square Mile loves to hate
David Norgrove may look like the archetypal mild-mannered public servant but, for much of corporate Britain, as chairman of the Pensions Regulator he is blamed for everyt...
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Replace council tax with 1% property levy - NIESR
The government should scrap council tax and replace it with a 1% tax on the value of property, a leading thinktank proposes. Releasing its latest quarterly economic forec...
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That'll help nicely
American Express has long used celebrities to promote its credit cards, but when Bono endorsed its latest offering yesterday it was obvious there was something different ...
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Lax tax and creative accountancy
Those of us of a certain age remember the Rolling Stones heading off into tax exile on the Riviera. As a teenager I thought they had achieved the perfect combination of s...
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All steamed up over high rail fares
Complaints on price should worry firms
A few shards of light have penetrated the perennial gloom of the railway network. In a startling turn of events, passengers seem t...
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Osborne waters down Tories' pledge to lower taxes
David Cameron's new-look Conservative party announced its latest policy U-turn yesterday when it admitted that sorting out Britain's public finances and ensuring economic...
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Fresh tax tricks
The Conservative party under David Cameron has become almost embarrassing in the way it apes the early days of New Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
Today it was...
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