The FT reported yesterday that Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit was one goverment dollar away from the chop – their source said: “It is…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 22, 2009 11:56AM | No Comments »
Gonzo journalism, where you go out and do something for real rather than just reporting on it, is always a seductive route for any journalist…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 21, 2009 1:27PM | 2 Comments »
Allen Stanford, orange cricket fan, WAG molester and alleged perpetrator of a massive fraud, spent yesterday having a massive PR binge…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 21, 2009 12:01PM | 1 Comment »
Last Friday, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartolm and Carl Lundström (aka the Pirate Bay Four) were all found guilty of ‘assisting in making…
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Posted by Kieron Bryan in Creative Economy | April 21, 2009 9:40AM | No Comments »
It may have been a little slow on the uptake, but the book industry is finally embracing Web 2.0. Mills and Boon lauched their…
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Posted by Ruth Stokes in Creative Economy | April 20, 2009 12:52PM | No Comments »
It’s Budget week, and apart from getting to do that holding-the-red-suitcase-up thing, Alastair Darling has to generate the confidence that he’s turning the economy round.…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 20, 2009 11:41AM | No Comments »
The FSA has been having a tough time of it recently, and unsurprisingly so – after all, they’re the regulatory body that presided over years…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 17, 2009 1:30PM | 1 Comment »
The government has announced plans to give buyers of electric cars up to £5,000 towards their purchase, incentivising people to buy the pricey…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | April 17, 2009 12:13PM | 4 Comments »
JP Morgan have released their first quarter results, and like Goldman Sachs’ earlier in the week, it looks at first glance like they’re immune to…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 16, 2009 2:11PM | No Comments »
We saw recently how students are getting all riled up like never before by tuition fees and non-specific warring, but activism is also…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | April 16, 2009 12:04PM | 1 Comment »
UBS further cements its position as the world’s most godawfully screwed bank today, with announcements today of another 7,500 job cuts, bringing their…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 15, 2009 1:13PM | No Comments »