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Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.
Waiting for the Other Shoe
What is quite clear is that the euro debt crisis is already with us, but that the EU ministers are quite incapable of grasping the reality
B.Eurocrats and Greek Debt
Lord Elgin understood the modern Greek mentality perfectly: if it’s worth saving, take it offshore
Beware Greeks Bearing Gilts
With the Greek tragedy unfolding in Athens, it’s time to go back to the classics and dust off those old words of wisdom
What's up with the numbers?
If the debt ceiling isn’t raised, Helicopter Ben will just have to raise the roof with more Quantitative Easing instead
A Sweaty Summer
Readers of this column have had plenty of warning of the coming double-dip and have surely sold in May and gone away
Going Nowhere
The UK economy might as well be The Grand Old Duke of York’s Army: for six months the UK economy has been marching nowhere.
Forget AV - it's EU we need a vote on
Would you vote to join a club where the insolvent members are paid for by the solvent ones?
Brown's Boomerangs
When he was in No. 10, Brown’s ugly temper turned it into the House of the Flying Mobiles
Houston, We Have a Problem
Our world is facing a conjunction of three cycles affecting Credit, Climate and Conflict, Bill Houston writes in his new book
Unbillable Hours
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Is it really possible to avoid stamp duty land tax when purchasing land and property?
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A lot has been made recently in the press about buyers of some of the UK’s most expensive homes avoiding stamp duty land tax (SDLT) by purchasing their home through a company.
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