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Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.
Tchenguiz in Trouble
Somewhere along the line Robert had racked up losses of over £1 billion when the stock market fell out of bed in 2008.
Screwer and Screwee
The bankers are the screwer and the taxpayer is the screwee in these strange transactions. You might as well get a bonus for training monkeys to eat bananas
The Euro Stalls
As the wheels came off this dream, the engineers scratched their heads in blank disbelief: it wasn’t meant to do this, what did we overlook?
Eurozone wobbles
As with all jellies, one wobble in one place causes other wobbles in other places, and so on ad infinitum
A Time of Inflation
If I prove to be right, you read it here first, and not for the first time before and during this global crisis
Double whammy
Last week the FSA published their report into the disaster, not for the general public, but for their eyes only
PIIGS in a blanket
The €85 Bn. Bail-out for Ireland is far too little and too late to prevent a full-blown Banking Crisis II
G20's lame ducks
So, in a world of competitive devaluations, the two biggest economies are joined at the hip in the race to the leadership position in this race of losers
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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