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Sunday, 8th November 2009

Bill Jamieson

With the forced sale of hundreds of Scottish bank branches, where is the government response to the turmoil WHERE stands Scotland now in The Great Dismemberment of banking? In Scotland over the past week it has been hard to keep pace with yet more cash injections, yet more state aid, and now an extraordinary game of pass the parcel, or pass the branch. The

Analysis: Transaction tax would cause uproar GORDON Brown's surprise proposal for a transaction tax on banks is set to create uproar in the financial sector and the Treasury.

Bill Jamieson: Holyrood's budgeting could take lessons from the Bank QUITE the most cheerful titbit in an otherwise grim week for our banks was the news that Royal Bank of Scotland is up for an award for "Best practice disclosure on audit policy and practice".

Bill Jamieson: Still walking a tightrope FOR central bank policymakers, the key dilemma remains: what is the greater risk: acting boldly and doing too much, or acting cautiously and doing too little?

Bill Jamieson: Lloyds Bank rights issue: one huge leap into the unknown

Bill Jamieson: Cometh the hour, cometh the man? If anyone can pull this rabbit from the hat, it's Thomson

Bill Jamieson: Faith helped Scots trust thrive amid all the panic

Bill Jamieson: Break-up will affect course of the UK's financial industry for years

Expect fireworks as the Monetary Policy Committee meets on Guy Fawkes Day

Smit fights back from portfolio plunge with 48% first-half rise

Bill Jamieson: America has Buffett. Scotland has, er...well, any takers?

Bill Jamieson: Banking boomerang returns with a vengeance

Bill Jamieson: Salmond must come up with the goods to keep business on his side

Bill Jamieson: Economics is not an exact science … it's not even a science

Bill Jamieson: Why stock markets are defying the real economy

With no sign of public anger dissipating and leading players split over the way ahead, the eventual outcome of the banking reform debate threatens to result in an explosive social and political mix

Analysis: A long, slow haul – and the nagging fear we're fuelling another bubble

Bill Jamieson: Shock fall in GDP confounds the experts

Comment: Pantomime fascist falls at first hurdle as Greer shines on night

Bill Jamieson: Scots economy under scrutiny as MPC members come calling

Bill Jamieson: Discounts a warning as well as an opportunity

Stuck in the slow lane to the future

Bill Jamieson: We've lost the power to build our way out of recession

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