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The former prime minister Tony Blair has received millions of pounds through an unusual mixture of commercial, charitable and religious income streams. Since he stepped down from office in 2007, his financial affairs have been described by observers as “Byzantine” and “opaque”. The Guardian is now launching an online competition offering a prize to the person who can shine the brightest light on those financial structures.
Blair has a commercial consultancy, called Tony Blair Associates, plus jobs advising a US bank and a Swiss insurer. He has a multimillion pound book deal. He also has a charity, the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, and another called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. But much of the income, which includes charitable donations from other sources, has been funnelled through a structure called Windrush Ventures No 3 Limited Partnership. Our contest asks: what is Windrush? Read the full story »
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Labour’s strategy for tackling poverty has reached the end of the road and Britain risks a return to Victorian levels of inequality, according to a major two-year study seen by The Independent.
The leaders were still shadow-boxing at the Confederation of British Industry conference yesterday. In the red corner Gordon Brown thumped out his warning that “choking off recovery too soon would be fatal”. In the blue …
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS were secretly kept afloat with £62 billion of emergency Government support at the height of the credit crisis last year, it was revealed today.
The Bank of England kept …
The public will not bail out the financial services sector for a second time if another global crisis blows up in four or five years time, the managing-director of the International Monetary Fund warned this …
Here is The Globe’s second interview with Niall Ferguson. He shares some interesting thoughts about destabilisation – both monetary and socially, and the road ahead.
Thanks to Tony Beckworth for bringing this interesting article to our attention. They simply can’t be right about 2010, can they…?!
Money Morning has described Britain as now being “actually insolvent” compared to being “technically insolvent” when it went begging to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1976.
The International Monetary Fund announced Monday the sale of 200 tonnes of gold worth 6.7 billion dollars to India’s central bank to shore up IMF finances.
In the segment ‘On My Mind’, Ron Paul discusses his thoughts on why large-scale government internvention in the economy is going to end badly. The False Recovery is underway.
Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal crisis. For 20 years the world’s second-largest economy has been able to borrow cheaply from a captive bond market, feeding its addiction to Keynesian deficit spending – …
Finally, the mainstream are catching up with what the Renegade Economist was saying back in October last year. Before you read on, this is the press conference video worth watching again $45 Trillion Wealth Wipe …
One of Goldman Sachs’s senior advisers in London has said that British taxpayers should “tolerate the inequality” stemming from the investment bank’s plans to dole out a record $22bn (£13.4bn) in pay and bonuses this …
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reports on how Ireland is just halfway through its property slump and is likely to see house prices fall 45pc from peak to trough as austerity begins in earnest.
Employers yesterday called upon the Government to get to grips with its ballooning debts as a new study put the true size of the public sector’s net liabilities at £2,200 billion, almost three …
An article from Jessica Irivne from the SMH. Ostrom’s work (recognised last week with a Nobel Prize) investigates how we all share the scare resources ‘the commons’ that earth provides for us all. She rejects …
A lot of us have been feeling the pinch living here in the UK, and this study does not go anywhere to help us believe that “things are going to get better” anytime soon. Share with …
And we think regulataion would prevent such deals to be structured in the future?
Goldman Sachs stands to receive a payment of $1bn – while US taxpayers would lose $2.3bn – if embattled commercial lender …
The Federal Reserve should be forced to identify companies that received loans from the central bank because it can’t demonstrate that borrowers would be harmed by the disclosure, according to lawyers who won a Freedom …
This article from the SMH illustrates the current rise of the bull market in dissent. Now we just need to keep harnessing the people power…
Hell hath no fury like a mummy blogger scorned – a …
“climate change and poverty are inextricably linked” – wise words from Hugh Jackman. Copenhagen cannot work without an understanding of the inter-relationship with the economy and some debate if the western model is actually the best for developing countries. …
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the US has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
“In the US and many other countries, the too-big-to-fail banks have become even bigger,” Stiglitz said in an interview overnight in Paris. “The problems are worse than they were in 2007 before the crisis.”
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How quickly a year flys. What has happened to the memory of Governments, regulators after the destruction inflicted last year in the banking sector. Apparently now we are meant to see them as economic saviors…. An interesting article from The Times.
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The Renegade Economist team presents an opportunity to learn what’s about to happen in the domestic and global economy, and …
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