Dec 14 2008
Corruption is a global phenomenon, and much of the proceeds of elite corruption in developing countries find a comfortable home in the banking system of richer countries, f rom Switzerland to the City of London....
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Dec 12 2008
New Zealand Herald EU welcomes Switzerland into Schengen area Xinhua, China - 2 hours ago Today, Switzerland has once again shown its commitment to cooperating as closely as possible with the European Union for the benefit of the Swiss people," ... Swiss say yes to Schengen, no to customs union Radio Netherlands Switzerland opens its borders BBC News Swiss scrap passport checks at land border Reuters South Africa Swissinfo - Deutsche Welle all 130 news articles
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Oct 29 2008
LONDON: This week the British government holds meetings with its Overseas Territory (OT) leaders. After a series of radically left attacks in Britain in recent days aimed at these long-established U.K. tax havens, this meeting should see some hot debates, notwithstanding traditional British civility. Some Labour Party leaders and their socialist and trade union allies are using the British government's multi-billion dollars bailout of selected banks as an excuse to demand that aided banks be
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Oct 29 2008
Two-percent of employers have cut back on their matches to cope with the sick economy, four-percent said they may have to make that change soon. ... "Forbes" ranked London's Millenium Dome as the world's ugliest building....
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Turner’s Daily
Oct 29 2008
The Vatican, the City of London, and other real powerful factions pulled his strings to do all of these things....
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Be of Good Cheer
Oct 27 2008
Clearly, the collapse of major investment banks headquartered here has harmed the city economy and tax revenues - and will also strain local nonprofits. ... London, New York's chief rival for "world financial capital," is now declining rapidly:...The British economy is simply too small to sustain the financial services it had attracted, and its finance jobs are moving to the Middle East. ... And the world is evolving from a handful of financial centers (London, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo)...
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ECONOMY CHALLENGE and NYC FUTURE
Oct 27 2008
. . to the tune of 16% of the world's most powerful economy's GDP, or 1 trillion this year. . . to bail them out. ... A small subsidiary in London bet on fractions of insurance on insurance on mortgages, bought from Morgan Stanley....
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Oct 26 2008
Still stuck in that first London job that I hate more as days go by but no, no luck in the correct interview technique department. ... 5. This is funny: Brits are determined to blame the crash of the global economy on the Icelanders....
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Half year recap
Oct 26 2008
Global Research, October 23, 2008
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to
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Oct 25 2008
I think of our little group in the morning as a family, so it was an especially big deal when Lori took the plunge this past weekend in a beautiful ceremony overlooking N ew London Harbor and Ocean Beach. ... Everybody's talking about the economy, and the attention on the energy crunch has been eclipsed by the credit crunch. What do we do?...
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