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Dark side of Dubai targeted by international financial task force

Fears are intensifying that the emirate has become a global centre for terror funding, money-laundering, drug money and mafia cash

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  More spending and less tax works – and now you can bet on it

  24 Jan 2010: There is actually a racehorse called Quantitativeasing – presumably running in Keynesian colours

• Banks are vital to London, says Boris Johnson

  24 Jan 2010: The mayor of London issues a fierce defence of financial services

• Exports 'dropped by more during recession than in any other slump'

  24 Jan 2010: Even manufacturing exports – which have risen in other recessions - have not not escaped this downturn, according to Conservative party analysis

• Boris Johnson v Will Hutton

  24 Jan 2010: Take Two: Is London's banking system a vital cog that keeps the capital running, or a timebomb in the British economy? Let the debate begin...

  • Editors' picks

  • Interactive: The global economy

    Interactive: Which countries are still in recession and which have emerged from the downturn?

  • Recession longest and deepest since war

    Figures come as ratings agency warns that the government must tackle the record budget deficit or risk a downgrade of the UK's debt370 comments

    • GDP revised up but UK still in recession
    • UK likely to be last out of slump
    • UK economy in its longest recession on record
    • The day Britain officially went into recession
    • Timeline: A painful year for Britain
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