MoneyWeek roundup: The central bank gold rush

James McKeigue highlights the week's best pieces from the MoneyWeek team, including: another reason to avoid banks; why tax avoidance is wrong; and the central bank gold rush.

Bankers have been caught cheating the financial system again. Thursday's headlines probably won't have come as much of a surprise to most of you, but the story behind them was shocking enough. Barclays Bank was fined a record £290m after it emerged its bankers had been manipulating a key interest rate called Libor. Several other leading UK banks were almost certainly involved.

John Stepek got to the bottom of exactly what's been going on and how it affects you in Thursday's Money Morning.

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James McKeigue

James graduated from Keele University with a BA (Hons) in English literature and history, and has a certificate in journalism from the NCTJ. James has worked as a freelance journalist in various Latin American countries.He also had a spell at ITV, as welll as wring for Television Business International and covering the European equity markets for the Forbes.com London bureau. James has travelled extensively in emerging markets, reporting for international energy magazines such as Oil and Gas Investor, and institutional publications such as the Commonwealth Business Environment Report. He is currently the managing editor of LatAm INVESTOR, the UK's only Latin American finance magazine.