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Cautious welcome for £50bn infrastructure plan

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JohnK " Better to force the banks to do what they are supposed to do. Make their money by lending it, not by gambling with it." You are so right. In order to do this we would have to increase taxes on short term capital gains to astronomical levels. It would never pass, the banks own the politicians.

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19 Jul 2012

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5:40 pm

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