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Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty
Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.
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Treasury selling NatWest off at loss is missed opportunity to ‘rejuvenate economy’
'NatWest could have been transformed into a people’s bank...but the government has shown no vision.'
Prof Prem Sikka: Don’t fall for the Tory ‘levelling up’ mantra, they’re still continuing with austerity
'The government’s mantra is that it is rebuilding the post-Covid economy by ‘levelling-up’, but it is hard to discern any policy that is reducing inequalities'.
Over 100 economists and leaders demand new Bank of England governor ‘leads the way’ on climate
Pressure mounts on the new Governor, from figures include former government chief scientific adviser Sir David King.
Inquiry into financial services long overdue as UK suffers
Labour’s public inquiry into banking and finance industry is a real chance to hold miscreants to account, says Prem Sikka.
Revealed: How Help to Buy has stuffed the pockets of housing giants
This was a policy designed to keep house prices high - not help people get on the ladder.