On the latest edition of The Business , Aditya Chakrabortty speaks to Lord Myners about the City minister’s attack on the ‘lazy and complacent’ bankers who, he says, still haven’t learned the lessons of the credit crunch. Also in the podcast, Tom Clark and Larry Elliott analyse the pros and cons of Germany’s plan to introduce an International Monetary Fund for the eurozone .

Voters in many eurozone member countries can be forgiven for thinking that the single currency has only made things worse The euro faced its first big challenge in this banking crisis – and it failed. That is not the assertion of a British newspaper but comes from Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, who admitted this week that “the sanctions we have were not good enough”.

Our large South American neighbour should not be allowed to force its colonial ambitions on us Simon Jenkins fails to acknowledge that the Falklands have moved on ( The Falklands can no longer remain as Britain’s expensive nuisance , 26 February). Argentina’s endeavours to force its colonial ambitions on a small country, against the freely expressed wishes of its people, ignore our basic right to self-determination

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The scheme’s supporters are mostly German, other countries will be suspicious The strangest part of all this talk about the creation of a European Monetary Fund is the timing. Eurozone members are in the middle of dealing with the Greek debt crisis and are desperately trying to maintain the line that Greece’s problems can be fixed by the adoption of austerity measures. Yet here is a proposal seemingly designed to deal with cases where austerity is not enough and bailout cash is required

Economist Jeffrey Sachs says transaction tax would meet aid promises, ease spending cuts – and curb the power of the banks A tax on every deal conducted by the financial industry would curb the excessive power of Wall Street, avoid the need for swingeing cuts in public spending and pay for the west’s unfulfilled promises to poor countries, one of the world’s leading economists saidtoday. Jeffrey Sachs, economics professor at Columbia University in New York, told a London audience that the so-called Robin Hood tax was a means of exercising control over bankers and ensuring they paid the right amount of tax

Management insists business is performing strongly after difficult month that saw its stock market flotation plans pulled Merlin Entertainments, the debt-laden theme park operator which last month stalled plans for a stock market flotation , has insisted the business continues to perform strongly at an operating level, with comparable sales increasing by 6.4%. The Luxembourg-registered group behind Legoland, London Dungeons, Madame Tussauds, the London Eye and Alton Towers is among a handful of large private equity-owned groups backed by US buyout house Blackstone whose flotation plans are being watched. A London stock market listing for the private equity group travel booking business Travelport was postponed last month

Meetup Events in Akron , OH — Tue Mar 09 12:00:00 UTC 2010 Mon Mar 22 18:00:00 EDT 2010We are hosting Justin Wooden (D) running for the 13th Congressional District.

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The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held Tuesday, April 6 at 4 p.m. at The Quaker Square Inn at The University of Akron, 135 South Broadway, Akron , Ohio . One hour of free continuing legal education credit will be …