John Gapper
Chief Business Commentator, Financial Times
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Financial Times columnist, author of A Fatal Debt. My views, only occasionally the FT's.
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RT @DavidWooding "Clapped-out hackademics, coked-up celebs, loved-up lawyers and vengeful politicians" tinyurl.com/qgklvb3 #leveson
Roger Alton lets rip at 'clapped-out hackademics, coked-up celebrities, loved-up lawyers and vengeful politicians'
pressgazette.co.uk — At a time when negotiations over the future of press regulation are still finely balanced, it fell to Times executive editor Roger Alton to say what everyone on Fleet Street was secretly thinking this week.
Steve Cohen of SAC should be prosecuted - my FT column on.ft.com/11ZxpiI
Wall Street justice should be delivered in open court
ft.com — After six years of scrutiny, and repeated legal action against those around him, Steve Cohen remains a free man. His $15bn hedge fund SAC Capital is still in business and he still firmly maintains his innocence, despite the evident disbelief of
@peterjukes @yorkierosie which could be solved by a sales tax very easily. it would be paid for by you and me, like all sales taxes.
@yorkierosie @peterjukes of course, corporate tax is paid for *us* through higher prices or pension fund returns. It ain't a free lunch.
@peterjukes Fine. You can have formula apportionment instead of double taxation treaties. UK would lose money, by the way, not gain.
@peterjukes It's a democracy. Ed Miliband runs a party. If he gets elected, he can impose an internet sales tax. Nothing stopping him.
@peterjukes @yorkierosie I believe in democratic laws, properly enforced, not politicians grandstanding to hide their own failures.
@yorkierosie @JananGanesh If the public wants to pressure politicians to change laws, that's fine. Hectoring companies for obeying them, not
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