British Press in a Tizzy that the EU Will Be Mean to the City of London in Brexit
The whinging from entitled Brits over the fact that the EU is playing Brexit hardball is getting annoying.
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GT Group’s Protean Ian Taylor in the UK: Reuters’ Special Report on 43 Bedford Street, and More
An ignominious decade of UK company registration, illustrated by UK companies formed by Ian Taylor, an old friend from New Zealand
Read more...Tweeting Brexit: Narrative Building and Sentiment Analysis
Twitter can be considered a novel type of elite media that enables agenda setters to communicate directly with other agenda setters and a politically active part of the public
Read more...Public Support for the Euro
Why a Brexit, even if it moves forward, seems unlikely to lead to a Eurozone breakup.
Read more...Ilargi: Ungovernability
“Ungovernability: or why the legitimacy crisis will only get worse.
Read more...Perfect Hindsight: on Breder Suasso of NZ and elsewhere, Global Transaction Services, of Hong Kong, Georgia (US) and London, mBank and Pekao Bank SA of Poland, and Ceska Sporitelna AS of the Czech Republic
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Read more...RBS Looted Small Business Customers, Deliberately Driving Thousands in Bankruptcy, While Under Government Ownership
How RBS destroyed thousands of small UK businesses for fun and profit.
Read more...Ham-Handed Theresa May “Hard Brexit” Stance Roils UK Pols, Not Just EU
Theresa May may have thrown a spanner in the Brexit works by pushing for a xenophobic “hard Brexit”. Accident or design?
Read more...Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 1
The birth of the Third Way —a turn away from class-struggle politics and a compromise with neoliberaism—and how it shaped the Eurozone.
Read more...Theresa May Outs Herself as Wall Street’s Poodle in Brexit Talks
It would be better if the latest Brexit news were a farce….
Read more...The City Will Decline—and We Will Be the Poorer for It
What might Brexit-induced losses to the City cost the UK economy?
Read more...Law Enforcement Losing War on White Collar Crime
Governments are losing the war on economic crime and considering new approaches, including involving the private sector to a greater degree.
Read more...Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at
Deutsche Bank’s $10Bn: the shell company back story
Read more...Japan Throws Spanner into Brexit Negotiations
Multinationals just weighted in on the Brexit talks, in the form of a letter from Japan’s government.
Read more...Brexit Delusion Rises Even Further: City Pumping for Presumptuous, Nightmarish-to-Negotiate “Swiss Plus” Plan
The Brexit fantasies get even bigger as the City pumps for a na ga happen “Swiss plus” plan.
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