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Best of the blogs

BusinessIFC provides a guide to some of the more interesting blogs on the web on subjects which impact on our readers. 

G20 and offshore centres

Geoff Cook, chief executive of Jersey Finance, compares the political in-fighting of the G20 to the last days of the Roman Empire 

http://mail.jerseyfinance.je/News/Comments-from-Geoff-Cook/The-Blinding-Rhetoric-of-Rageanomics/  

The Madoff scandal 

Andrew Ross Sorkin, of the New York Times’ Dealbook, looks at bids for the Madoff businesses 

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/ 

The AIG bail-out 

How AIG bonuses threaten all US stock prices says John Landry, an editor of the Harvard Business Review 

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/leadership/  

UK banking regulation 

Robert Peston, economics specialist at the BBC, argues that it is good news for British banking that Barclays does not need UK government assistance 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/03/barclays_may_reject_asset_prot.html 

Monaco concedes 

Henry Samuel, of The Daily Telegraph, speculates on the future of Monaco 

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/henry_samuel/blog/2009/03/12/after_andorra_and_liechtenstein_will_uncooperative_tax_haven_monaco_be_next_to_jump 

The Michael Foot inquiry team goes to the BVI

Brian Obian offshore analyst in the BVI, comments on the Michael Foot review visit to the BVI  

http://bvioffshoreibc.blogspot.com/2009/03/uk-financial-team-visits-bvi-territory.html      

Reccommendations to the Foot team 

AES International makes recommendations to Michael Foot’s team 

http://blog.aesfinance.com/tag/independent-review-into-british-offshore-financial-centres/     

Dispelling myths 

Bryan Hunter in the Cayman Islands dispels myths about offshore centres 

http://caymanjuice.blogspot.com/2008/03/offshore-financial-centers-myth-and.html  

CARICOM holds back on Turks and Caicos crisis 

Oscar Ramjeet, a respected Caribbean lawyer, comments on CARICOM’s refusal to come to the aid of the Turks and Caicos Islands’ government 

http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/turks/turks.php?news_id=15299&start=0&category_id=37   

British takeover spotlights grip of corruption 

Anthony L Hall, a TCI national living in Miami, says that short-termist delays to the British assumption of power are bound to fail 

http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/turks/turks.php?news_id=15260&start=0&category_id=37   

The environment for hedge funds in the Netherlands Antilles 

Karel Frielink, lawyer in then Netherlands Antilles, discusses hedge funds in the jurisdiction 

http://www.curacao-law.com/hedge-funds/