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Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.
Crown King, bash Brown
When Mervyn King told all these bailed out bankers in Edinburgh that the ‘Too-Big-To-Fail Syndrome’ was the right issue, however, all hell broke loose
Dr Doom and Dr Gloom
Quantitative easing, you see, isn’t reaching those parts that the other stimuli cannot reach.
Lunatic Express!
Less than a year after the global economy derailed, the big-bonus gravy train is not only back on the rails but steaming along, says Spear’s Economics Editor Stephen Hill
Goldman Sucks
Or does it? Slagging off the world’s most powerful bank is a popular pastime these days — but how much of the mud really sticks, asks Stephen Hill
Words but no meaning
Government is applying false nomenclature to true numbers, and all in the name of “transparency” – don’t you see?
My new friend at the IMF
This column has often felt lonely ever since it predicted the banking collapse in February 2007, but at last we have a friend
The banking barrier, broken
Then someone said Glass-Steagall was anachronistic, just when old snake-oil wanted to do a good turn for his buddies.
Over-easing
Well, we all know Gordon can’t make anything work within the normal rules and always needs more money
Skinny-banking
Banks don’t want to sell toxic assets because the price offered would have left them swimming without their pants on
Pendular motion
The problems to come are obvious: more major losses from bad debts and unemployment, but on a huge scale
Unbillable Hours
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I have been reading in the press recently that if you are not a UK citizen it is going to become more difficult to divorce in the UK. Is this true?
A
It is a fact that in recent years there has been an increase in ‘forum shopping’ divorces and London has been described as the divorce capital of the world.
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