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BBC – Air bag jacket ‘could save lives’
Read more: BBC – Air bag jacket ‘could save lives’Via BBC – Newsbeat – Technology – Air bag jacket ‘could save lives’: Dozens of motorcyclists’ lives could be saved every year if air bag jackets were made compulsory, accident and emergency doctors have said. The jackets are…
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“The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain”
Read more: “The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain”After first reporting on the book here, I have finally returned to read it in detail; it is Cromwellian: ‘I find the country bleeding, nay, almost dying,’ Oliver Cromwell told MPs in 1644. what made him angry was…
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Why the Downturn? – T E Woods, Jr
Read more: Why the Downturn? – T E Woods, JrIt’s not exactly clear how the Federal Reserve’s policy of pushing interest rates well below where the free market would have set them, thereby inflating the biggest asset bubble in the history of the world, could be the…
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Some Banks Want to Return Government Money – NYTimes.com
Read more: Some Banks Want to Return Government Money – NYTimes.comEven before the [US] government announced its latest efforts to fix the troubled banking industry on Tuesday, executives at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley said they wanted to repay the money quickly. Both banks received $10 billion under…
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FT.com / UK / Business – Danger in bank bill, warn lawyers
Read more: FT.com / UK / Business – Danger in bank bill, warn lawyersFurther attacks on the classic understanding of the rule of law, under which legislation should not be retrospective: A new law aimed at staving off banking crises would give the authorities dangerously wide scope to intervene in struggling…
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FT.com / UK – Brown calls for bonus clawbacks
Read more: FT.com / UK – Brown calls for bonus clawbacksAgain Gordon Brown forgets that people were often paid in shares: Britain’s financial regulator should be able to force failing bankers to hand back their bonuses, Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, said on Thursday. Amid rising public and…
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Gordon Brown: We are ‘sweeping away’ bonus culture of City banks – Telegraph
Read more: Gordon Brown: We are ‘sweeping away’ bonus culture of City banks – TelegraphIn a classic case of state intervention begetting state intervention: Executives at RBS, which is 70 per cent owned by the state, are pushing to pay their staff nearly £1 billion in bonuses, even though the bank needed…
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Vector 3 parachute container modification for magnetic riser covers
Read more: Vector 3 parachute container modification for magnetic riser coversUnited Parachute Technologies’ riser cover modification, which adds extra magnets. I understand this is intended to increase the security of the riser covers, particularly for those who work at higher freefly speeds. The cover on the left of…
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BBC NEWS | UK | Government plans travel database
Read more: BBC NEWS | UK | Government plans travel databaseThe government is compiling a database to track and store the international travel records of millions of Britons. Computerised records of all 250 million journeys made by individuals in and out of the UK each year will be…