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Archive for October, 2008

HBOS Board Trampled Underfoot By Mighty Black Horse

Just two out of 11 senior roles in the new Lloyds/HBOS superbank will be filled by HBOS execs, while the board will be exclusively Lloyds,…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 31, 2008 1:44PM | 1 Comment »


Mary Portas: It’s Great Westfield are Paying Me to Say It’s Great

So the great consumer debt temple Westfields has opened, and the verdict from the BBC and the Telegraph is it’s super fab!

That is, according…

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Posted by Becky North in Other | October 31, 2008 1:42PM | No Comments »


Yup Yup…

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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | October 31, 2008 12:45PM | No Comments »


Potential Paulson Successors #3: Tim “Because You’re Worth It” Geithner

Looking like the poster boy for a men’s skincare range, even though he’s in his late 40s, is Tim Geithner, head of the Federal Reserve…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 31, 2008 12:05PM | No Comments »


Canary Wharf Staff Brace for the ‘Burial of Capitalism’

We hear word that Canary Wharf is about to be swamped this afternoon by a horde of ghoulish crusties, who have arranged a mass Halloween…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | October 31, 2008 11:57AM | No Comments »


It’s Not Just The Graphs That Are Looking Sharp

If you’re a Master of the Universe, you better damn well dress like one. Patrick Bateman knew it, Sherman McCoy knew it, Gordon Gekko knew…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 29, 2008 7:59AM | 1 Comment »


LG: ‘Life is in Fact no Longer Good’

This is one of the more depressing stories to pop up post-crisis – LG is getting rid of it’s “Life’s Good” slogan on the grounds…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | October 28, 2008 2:42PM | 3 Comments »


Christie’s: ‘Arabs are the New Russians’

Last week’s October art auctions in London were not just a dissappointment, they were the sharp sound of the art market bubble popping. Frieze Art…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Creative Economy | October 28, 2008 11:35AM | No Comments »


Potential Paulson Successors #2: Sheila “Care” Bair

Yesterday we had a look at floppy-mouthed Clintonian Larry Summers as a potential new Treasury Secretary for the next administration; today it’s the turn of…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 28, 2008 10:14AM | 1 Comment »


Diary 17: September 14, 2008

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Posted by James Nash in Other | October 28, 2008 8:36AM | 1 Comment »


Lehman Brothers’ Name Even Further In Mud

If you need some accountancy doing, you want to go to a name you can trust. So if your firm shares its name with a…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 27, 2008 1:34PM | 1 Comment »


Potential Paulson Successors #1: Larry “Hot” Summers

Hank Paulson didn’t want to carry on being Treasury Secretary back in August, so he sure as hell won’t want to now.

But…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 27, 2008 12:39PM | No Comments »