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Callum D’Ath: No end to the gold rush any time soon

“NOTHING concentrates the mind of a man so wonderfully as the knowledge he’s to be hanged within a month.” Samuel Johnson’s wonderful quote brings to mind the recent procrastinations across the channel over the Eurozone crisis and rescue.

Jeff Salway: Challenge to bring out best in this year’s IFA

THE IFA of the Year competition isn’t for the faint-hearted these days. But if you want to show Scotland just how good you are, there’s no better way of doing it.

Jeff Salway: Payday loans soaring out of control

WHAT have insolvency practitioners, pawn brokers, payday loan firms, job centre workers and Greggs the baker got in common?

Bank bonuses have been under intense scrutiny from all sides, but the mood between government and banks regarding the issue has lately been more conciliatory
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Terry Murden: Money talks for government when it comes to bank bonuses

AFTER the public vitriol of recent weeks it looks as though a truce of sorts is being called between Westminster and the banking sector. Prime Minister David Cameron appears to have acknowledged that only so much punishment can be handed out before rebuke turns to permanent damage.

Fred Goodwin: Acted as financial adviser to the Queen. Picture: Neil Hanna

Terry Murden: Anti-business attitude will only harm our economy

IT HAS been a bad week for business, or at least attitudes towards business. The political elite, spurred on by the burn-the-bankers mob, is now hell-bent on punishing anyone who is rich or, worse, a rich failure.

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Terry Murden: Dubious morality behind burning Goodwin at the stake

Sir Fred Goodwin could lose his knighthood. Picture: TSPL

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Jeff Salway: Bank workers know pitfalls of share perks

FOR Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Scotland workers, the chance to buy discounted shares in their employer seemed a no-lose deal.

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Bill Jamieson: Easy to forget that down follows up

SO WHAT are a “better economy” and “socially responsible capitalism”, exactly? Once David Cameron and Ed Miliband have finished flashing their soundbites and defined more accurately what it is they want, how do we get there?

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Terry Murden: Dubious morality behind burning Goodwin at the stake

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The poor performance of Tesco shares are a source of embarrasment to a company whose stock market reputation was hitherto considered to be robust. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Terry Murden: Bob’s timing results in red faces

TESCO’S chief executive Philip Clarke is promising an overhaul of its troubled UK operations, which account for two-thirds of its profits.

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Bill Jamieson: Tax cut would show UK means business

George Osborne seems determined to see through his deficit reduction programme and is adamant nothing should dislodge this priority. Photograph: PA

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The ancient Greek Parthenon temple atop the Acropolis. Picture: Getty

Bill Jamieson: Fuse is lit as battered Greece nears the edge

IT FEELS – and on the riot-torn streets of Athens increasingly looks – like a fast-fizzing fuse. Today, with the country locked down in a two-day national strike and the government shaken by the resignation of five Cabinet ministers, the Greek parliament holds a critical vote on the latest austerity package to save the country from default.

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What are the SNP's plans regarding the degree of Scotland's fiscal autonomy? Picture: Getty

Bill Jamieson: Fiscal autonomy takes a pounding

WHATEVER your views on independence, First Minister Alex Salmond has set Scotland on its most important constitutional, political and economic journey for 300 years. The next two will see an intensifying scramble to seize the commanding heights of policy credibility.

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Bill Jamieson: Easy to forget that down follows up

SO WHAT are a “better economy” and “socially responsible capitalism”, exactly? Once David Cameron and Ed Miliband have finished flashing their soundbites and defined more accurately what it is they want, how do we get there?

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The sale represents the bank's single biggest disposal since the state-backed bank's government bailout of �45bn in 2008. Picture: Getty

Bill Jamieson: Who gets RBS if the UK breaks up?

In any break-up, whether of households or of nations, the hottest dispute is over who gets what: that acrimonious division of the spoils. It can turn the best intentions of a velvet divorce into a war zone.

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