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  • The U.K. chancellor of the exchequer's decision to endorse a half-formed proposal to force banks to separate their U.K. retail operations from their investment-banking arms is a leap in the dark that could have unintended global consequences.

    U.K. Bank Revamp Is a Leap in the Dark Simon Nixon 2011

  • The publication of the first volumes of the 1910 land tax valuations – the so-called Lloyd George Domesday survey, which followed the Liberal chancellor of the exchequer's great fiscal reforms – reveals the house prices of 100 years ago.

    A central London house for £20,000 – how prices looked in 1910 2011

  • The U.K. chancellor of the exchequer's decision to endorse a half-formed proposal to force banks to separate their U.K. retail operations from their investment-banking arms is a leap in the dark that could have unintended global consequences.

    U.K. Bank Revamp Is a Leap in the Dark Simon Nixon 2011

  • Has he not heard that the money in the Irish exchequer's coffers comes from taxes, paid by the sublebrity likes of nurses and teachers and bricklayers and so on?

    Bono: the celebrity who just keeps giving 2010

  • Far from having regained control of the exchequer's purse strings, Brown and Alistair Darling are still on course to breach their £38bn deficit forecast for the financial year as whole.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • Far from having regained control of the exchequer's purse strings, Brown and Alistair Darling are still on course to breach their £38bn deficit forecast for the financial year as whole.

    The grim state of public finances 2008

  • Forty-five years later, the same formula is now being applied in Naxalite areas, and it is difficult even to imagine how much of the exchequer's money has been spent on roads that were never constructed, but for which payments have been made and distributed among the local 'stakeholders', with the Naxalites cornering a considerable share to bolster up their 'revolution'.

    Callous about Maoist terror Abhay N 2007

  • Gauteng exchequer's account, expected to hold more than R10 billion.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • Last year, in a bid to transfer most of the spiralling costs of tuition from the state to students, the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition raised the maximum fees English universities can charge, while slashing the exchequer's contribution to teaching.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that, excluding financial intervention, public sector net borrowing - the gap between the exchequer's tax take and its spending -

    Politics: General election 2010 | guardian.co.uk Katie Allen 2010

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