Going flat out
Lobbying for an overhaul of the tax system by the adoption of a controversial system of "flat tax" has been a staple of the US political right for some time. The subject ...
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Bank chief widens rift with Brown
The division between the Treasury and the Bank of England over the health of the public finances widened yesterday when the Bank's governor, Mervyn King, openly questione...
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Ulster students celebrate GCSE success
Thousands of pupils across Northern Ireland were celebrating their GCSE results today.
Two days ahead of the release of results by exam boards in England and Wales, Ulst...
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Banks call for data-sharing on personal credit histories
Stories of customers with wallets stuffed full of credit cards, stacked up with more debt than their holders can afford to repay, have become commonplace amid the outcry ...
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Report urges overhaul of Welsh social services
Social services in Wales need an urgent relaunch to deal with high staff-vacancy and turnover rates, a major new report has recommended today.
A two-year multi-agency re...
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London pleads for terror 'rebate
London businesses are asking for a 'rates rebate' to help them recover from the economic impact of last month's terrorist attacks on the capital, writes James Robinson. T...
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Richard Hawley, Coles Corner
Coles Corner
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£10.99
Scott Walker, the great existential balladeer, and a man not given to overstatement, rates Richard Hawley's voice as 'up there with the a...
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Does the maestro sign off in credit?
Alan Greenspan, darling of Wall Street, monetary 'maestro' and personification of the American boom, retires in the new year. As rumours fly in Washington about who will ...
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VAT fraud big enough to skew trade figures
The Office for National Statistics said yesterday that a renewed outbreak of so-called "missing trader fraud" had so skewed Britain's trade figures that it could not have...
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Virtue of Keynes
You rightly attribute current serious economic problems (Bankruptcies hit highest level since 1960; Barclaycard cuts credit limits as debts rise, August 6) to the huge ac...
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Engineering 
