Temple Associates

No surprise there, EU is basically a protectionist racket, dominated by socialist parties and lobbies, where even pseudo right wing parties ...

The idea that the average person should be wholly/predominately responsible to save for his/her retirement is laughable. It may appeal to do...

More and more desperate calls for all-out QE in the Eurozone make me laugh and cry at the same time. Laugh because it is not very likely tha...

One could argue that the Financial Transaction Tax (aka Tobin Tax) is nothing to get excited about, there are taxes on air tickets, house pu...

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Rather than trying to cut back on government spending that is clearly out of control in most European countries the unaccountable Bureaucrat...

The absurd legislation making its way through the US government machine is a sad indictment for the inability of the European 'elites...

Oswald Gruebel, CEO of UBS , wants the British government to state its intentions concerning regulation and taxation that will affect the b...

A simple calculation in the sports section of a British newspaper came to the conclusion that a football player who would move to England on...

As the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act by the US authorities draws nearer, it will be interesting to see how the u...

When the IMF bureaucrats call for more taxes on the banking system one can only feel a sense of revulsion. Not enough that politicians th...

It is ironic that in a week when the helpless US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner pens a letter complaining about presumed unfair treatment...

When statists sniff an opportunity to extract more tax from their subjects they usually find an excuse quite quickly. Gordon Brown certainl...

The EU develops more and more into a bureaucratic and undemocratic monster. The latest news is the 'demand' for an automatic exchang...

A new study by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS/BIZ) suggests that large banks should be taxed at a higher level to compensate f...

Senior Bankers have recently felt compelled to contribute to the debate about so-called 'socially useless banking'. The key question...

We would not celebrate too early and condone the long-term impact of higher prospective tax rates on London's standing as a financial ce...

The self-servicing top tax court in the UK (ominousely called 'Special Commissioners') has just issued an order to the foreign banks...

A cursory comparison of personal income tax rates would cause us to cry out: 'Go East young Man!' for the tax rates in Hong Kong and...

During the recent past politicians and lobbies of all persuasions seen to have found a new 'Enemy Number One' - Banking Secrecy and ...