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This blog originally appeared on Huffington Post.
Not everybody in the financial industry is like Jamie Dimon. They do not all think the financial system is running like a charm, aside from a few "isolated incidents" like a $2 billion trading loss.
No, it's important to remember that the financial...
This blog originally appeared on Liberal Conspiracy.
Tomorrow the finance ministers of Europe will gather in Luxemburg to discuss the problems besetting Europe’s economies. It will be a grim meeting.
But at the end of the agenda, like ‘hope’ at the bottom of Pandora’s Box, there is a...
Today, the Robin Hood Tax campaign received another boost as more than 50 financiers came out in support of a tax on financial transactions.
52 former and current financiers have written to David Cameron and other European and world leaders calling on them to back Financial Transaction Taxes (FTTs) to raise revenue for “people in urgent need at home and in the world’s poorest countries”.
The letter, signed by senior figures...
Sometimes things get tough for us all. Friends or family lose their jobs, someone close to you dies, wages won't quite stretch to the end of the month. But right now we're all trying to sail through a storm of cuts and "reforms" to the services we rely on, frozen or falling incomes and rising prices. And, for those of us who already found it hard to make ends meet, the problem is looking desperate.
Just how difficult life is...
