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We’ve swooned over US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner ever since we mooted him for a Treasury position last year. That skin! Those boyish…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 30, 2009 1:31PM | 1 Comment »
John Thain will be giggling into his Jobseekers Allowance this morning with the news that Ken Lewis, the Bank of America chief that oversaw the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 30, 2009 11:03AM | No Comments »
Danny Pang, the Californian money-manager whose life has seemingly been unravelling since he was born, has finally gone into custody today. He’s been…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 29, 2009 1:35PM | No Comments »
Phorm, the targeted advertising company that’s the scourge of the privacy brigade, is actively fighting back against its detractors with a new website,
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 29, 2009 10:57AM | 3 Comments »
Starting a week today is the FIPP World Magazine Congress, the annual conference for the magazine industry to debate where we’re all heading,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 28, 2009 12:02PM | No Comments »
The FT has got some details of Alastair Darling’s white paper on the future of banking that’s out next month, and it sounds…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 28, 2009 10:11AM | No Comments »
John Thain, the ousted head of Merrill Lynch with a taste for soft furnishings a pimp might balk at as being “too showy”,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 27, 2009 1:32PM | 2 Comments »
Independent News and Media, who publish the Independent, are in another spot of financial bother. Aside from the newspaper that loses £10m a year, along…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 27, 2009 10:51AM | 1 Comment »
Print media is screwed – we all know that. But now Google CEO Eric Schmidt is telling newspapers to innovate, and the Associated Press is…
Posted by Jennifer Allan in Creative Economy | April 24, 2009 12:56PM | No Comments »
Barclays, who got their shareholders rather annoyed by ignoring them in favour of some very wealthy sheiks when they needed some liquidity, Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 23, 2009 4:08PM | No Comments »
After the government announced it would issue £220bn-worth of gilts yesterday to help prop up public spending during the recession, it’s looking uncertain…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 23, 2009 2:56PM | No Comments »
Alastair Darling has delivered his Budget, and it’s quite the gamble – the government is set to borrow a staggering £606bn over the next four…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 22, 2009 3:18PM | 2 Comments »
