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<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/simon_carr/index.html" target="_blank">Simon Carr: A month of Wednesdays</a>

Thursday 18 September 2008 08:15 BST
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Hedge funds are raiding financial institutions and the government is liable for the losses if the institutions go down. That’s Vince Cable's proposition. The raiders are "betting against the taxpayer".

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