Europe’s Largest White Elephant?

In today’s Times, author John Naish savagely mocks the Australian company Westfield, who have timed the opening of…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Hot Money | October 23, 2008 12:11PM | 1 Comment »

Bitter/Funny Depression Fashion

Yup, roll up roll up for some sweet depression chic. This shirt, flagged up by our friends at Uncrate, pretty much sums it up for…

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Posted by Becky North in Other | October 23, 2008 11:43AM | No Comments »

Bloomberg In Super-Hip Crunch Speak Furore

This piece on Bloomberg today makes you wish they’d stay the hell away from pop culture and just write about opera like the FT…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | October 23, 2008 11:13AM | No Comments »

Hedge Fund Managers Grovel to Clients: ‘Please, Our Financial Magic Still Works!’

The Wall Street Journal has just reviewed a dozen or so letters from hedge fund managers attempting to woo their clients and stop…

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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | October 23, 2008 11:03AM | No Comments »

Martin Bright: ‘Of Course Osborne Asked For the Money, It’s His Business Model’

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne’s limp rebuttals to Nat Rothschild’s Corfu allegations have been put in a new light by an immaculate piece of…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | October 23, 2008 10:11AM | No Comments »

All’s Well In Flavour Country

“God, look at those red graph lines! Down and down they go! I could be ruined! I need to get me some cigarettes and chiiiill…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Other | October 23, 2008 9:52AM | No Comments »

Can We Admit Nat Rothschild is Not Mr Darcy?

This love-in on Nat Rothschild has to stop. The guy is a just a stinkingly wealthy banker with some shady connections (perhaps less shady connections…

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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Other | October 22, 2008 7:22PM | 1 Comment »

OMG the Hedgestock Site is Still Up

A little while ago we reminisced about hedge fund computer games, but we’d totally…

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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | October 22, 2008 6:40PM | 1 Comment »

Stick Men And Cartoons Are All I Can Really Handle: a Review of Credit Crunch Cartoons

The chaos of last week is now starting to coalesce, moving away from the candy-floss mood swings of bourses everywhere, and into the stodgy brown…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 22, 2008 5:50PM | No Comments »

Footballers Not Feeling the Bite. Yet.

The English Premier League: home of colossally arrogant superstars earning £120,000 a week, ‘Baby Bentley culture’, and dodgy foreign club owners who have passed…

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Hot Money | October 22, 2008 3:56PM | No Comments »

Young Britain Goes to Topshop, Ignores Upcoming Decade of Penury

Retail magnate Philip Green has announced that young Britain’s unquenchable thirst for ever more cheap fashion is propping up his company. Speaking at…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 22, 2008 2:35PM | 1 Comment »

The New Robin Hood: Take from the Poor to Give to the Poor (Minus Fees)

In 2006 money mag Forbes led a piece about corporate philanthropy titled ‘The Legend of Robin Hood’ with the paragraph:

“How the leaders…

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Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | October 22, 2008 1:25PM | No Comments »