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The revolution may not be televised by here are some great videos to get it under way. If one of your new year resolutions is to get to grips with what is happening to our economy these videos are a great starting point.
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Taming the vampire squid: Taking back our banks by New Economics Foundation...
We asked for your Christmas wish lists and you delivered. We received hundreds of letters reminding the bankers that Christmas is a time of giving not just of bonuses.
We were overwhelmed by your letters both by the number we received and by the amount of heart each of them had. So we took your wishlists and made them into books. A digital one, copied in below, that we can send to our MPs. Plus a nice green hardback copy which we hand...
Merry men took their message to HM Treasury today that Robin Hood Taxes offer a real alternative to George Osborne's spending cuts.
The government has put 'fairness' at the heart of its agenda yet banks, which are largely responsible for the UK's fiscal troubles, are returning to record-breaking profits and bonuses. They can afford to pay an additional £20 billion in tax which would avert the worst of the cuts and protect the...
18 months ago the idea of taxing the banks was being dismissed out of hand. Today the European Commission (the executive body of the EU) outlined their vision for taxing the financial sector. It’s big news.
The EC’s plans for taxation are guided by the firm conviction that the financial sector needs to make a fair contribution to public finances, and that governments urgently need new sources of revenue in the current economic climate....
