Margareta Pagano
Business Editor of The Independent on Sunday, Margareta Pagano was one of the founding editors and an associate editor of eFinancialnews, the City newspaper and online news service. She has worked for the Guardian, Times, Sunday Telegraph and was city editor of the Sunday Correspondent. She appears regularly on Bloomberg TV and the BBC and writes for Spectator magazine.
Margareta Pagano: We need equity to become equitable
People who buy shares are taxed more than if they go to the dogs
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Margareta Pagano: Male egos, move over, women are retail's best hope
Sunday, 30 November 2008
Female chiefs show they're in touch with shoppers
Margareta Pagano: Help small firms. Tax cuts won't even be a short-term fix
Sunday, 23 November 2008
The Government must boost the real economy
Margareta Pagano: We could come out of this crisis in much better shape
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Is all this gloomy talk making things much worse? This may seem a little odd to ask after a week in which more than 20,000 people lost their jobs. On Friday another 3,000 jobs went at Royal Bank of Scotland while Citibank said it was slashing 10,000 jobs , many of them at Canary Wharf. Two more banks, Clydesdale and Yorkshire, are planning to cut 350 jobs and many more thousands will go from financial services.
Margareta Pagano: No ifs or butts: Obama has to stick to his guns
Sunday, 9 November 2008
If you want a real feel for Barack Obama's economic policies, go to YouTube and tap in "Obama", "Pants" and "MTV News". Here you can watch the President-elect urging his young black brothers to: "Pull UpYour Pants". His rebuke to the saggy-pants brigade tells me more about where Obama wants to take the US economy than any number of new policy statements to be made by his team over the coming months. With those words, he's told a generation to get off their butts, get some pride, self-reliance, self-respect, hard work and decency; all those old-fashioned virtues which are as much the American dream as a black man in the White House.
Margareta Pagano: The Bank can do its job. What about the rest of them?
Sunday, 26 October 2008
We should focus on lending and the national debt
Let's beef up the Old Lady. The FSA is a lightweight
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Tory proposals for a renewed Bank of England role in City regulation are a good starting point for change
Margareta Pagano: These bankers don't deserve to keep their jobs
Sunday, 12 October 2008
The top executive directors of the eight banks that could take part in the Government's rescue plan were paid £72m between them last year. That's nearly £2m each. Many of them earned far, far more but this is the average. Over the same year, shareholders in most of those banks – namely Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Barclays – have lost their shirts. And let us not forget, the shareholders who invested in Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock, who have been wiped out by this banking calamity. In those cases, the chiefs left, albeit with big pay-offs.
Margareta Pagano: Will China tip the US 'balance of financial terror'?
Sunday, 5 October 2008
The former US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, calls it the "the balance of financial terror". A noted academic, Summers, who served under President Bill Clinton, was referring to the relationship between the US and its newer creditors, such as China, the Middle East and Russia. Foreign countries now own nearly a quarter, some $2.6 trillion, of the total US debt. They also own more than $14 trillion in US assets – that's more than the total US national output.
Margareta Pagano: It's hero to zero as Paulson's own stock takes a dive
Sunday, 28 September 2008
Critics let rip over Treasury Secretary's handling of money meltdown as Congress mulls $700bn rescue
Margareta Pagano: Has Sir Victor's deal of a lifetime given the markets a lifeline?
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Now the Lloyds chairman must make the HBOS takeover work
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