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Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill is a businessman who has been published on classical economics and on European philology and philosophy.
Spring Schadenfreude
'The idea of a common market with a common currency is the stuff of economic nonsense' - prophetic words.
The right cuts
The Shadow Chief Secretary of the Treasury was raising hopes the Tories had found someone financially literate, until he opened his mouth.
V is for Volcker
“President Obama! The bankers on Wall Street are running off with the Punch Bowl of Excess, all over again!”
Greece-ing the EU's palms
It’s a familiar story: a corrupt socialist government has lost control of public expenditure. If, Dear Reader, you think I am talking about the UK...
"No we can't!"
Bob the Builder’s gleeful cry “Yes we can!” isn’t matched by Brown the Banker, unfortunately for the UK-taxpayer.
Moneychangers' Revenge
As far as I can detect, these bankers are just a bunch of stock-jobbers and are not the backbone of anything, other than their own ill-gotten riches.
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
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.
Spear's Wire
- UK signs double taxation agreement with Liechtenstein, extends Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility
- WBrief: UBS wealth management inflows, profits up in 2011
- S&P: European Round-up
- Spear's Submission to the Government on Protecting Britain's Heritage
- STel: 101 Tory MPs protest to No 10 about wind turbines
The Hedgehog
Spear's Spiky Undercover Agent Dishes the Gossip
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