The shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, could be in charge of the British economy in just over two months. So it is well worth looking at what he stands for. Last Sunday he came up with the stunning idea “to sell shares in the nationalised banks to ordinary Britons at a discount in order to reward them for
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SocialistUnity on 27th Feb 2010 (via socialistunity.com)
Shares in state-owned banks would be offered to voters at a discount as part of a Tory effort to encourage young people and those on modest incomes to invest, George Osborne has announced.
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Telegraph on 21st Feb 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
SHARES in state-owned banks would be offered to voters at a discount as part of a Tory effort to encourage young people and those on modest incomes to invest, George Osborne a
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Scotsman on 22nd Feb 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
The US Treasury is planning to sell its remaining shares in Citigroup, exiting its $45bn bail-out of the bank at a profit and freeing the company from government ownership
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FT on 6th Dec 2010 (via ft.com)
Markets digest reports that Chancellor George Osborne's Mansion House speech will back the ring-fencing of retail banks.
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Telegraph on 15th Jun 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
U.S. stock-index futures and European shares declined Friday on speculation that a report would show the American economy lost jobs for a 12th straight month.
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InternationalHeraldTribune on 9th Jan 2009 (via iht.com)
CHANCELLOR George Osborne yesterday joined European Union finance ministers in Luxembourg for the latest round of talks on how to stabilise the chaotic situation, amid fears o
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Scotsman on 4th Oct 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
The public could be offered discounted shares in state-owned banks under a "people's bonus" proposed by the Tories.
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BBCPolitics on 21st Feb 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
I have two relatives, getting on in their years, both of whom have holdings of shares in RBS - one of them a rather large holding. One of them had taken comfort in the charity they intended to leave the money to as a legacy. Both of them were given the shares in inheritance, and can't bring themselves to sell because of the memory of the people who help them before. And anyway they used to be...
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ManInAShed on 20th Jan 2009 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
BONG: Trinity Mirror's shares down 81% in a year; BONG: Johnston Press shares down 90%; BONG: Daily Mail and General Trust Shares down 54% - it's all there on the front page of the Guardian Media section. What does it mean? What it does NOT mean is that newspapers are dying as media businesses: the ad spend figures projected by Group M last month are for a fall in growth - from 6% to 4% - masking ...
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PaulMason on 18th Jul 2008 (via bbc.co.uk)
DAVID Cameron will unveil his party's manifesto tomorrow with promises to give incentives to young people to save and confirmation of plans to sell discounted shares in ba
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Scotsman on 12th Apr 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
