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After the powers that be decided there was no evidence linking her to her husband’s crimes, Ruth Madoff is off the criminal proceedings…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 30, 2009 12:00PM | No Comments »
Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s consumer space flight program, is epic enough to make even the biggest cosmo-sceptic start pointing their finger and jump up and…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | July 29, 2009 1:30PM | No Comments »
We recently looked at the annual report from UKFI, the company set up in a wee corner of the Treasury to look after…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 29, 2009 10:48AM | No Comments »
Like some panicked shop owner pleading with a mafia head, the Independent has been getting out of paying the interest on one of its loans…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | July 28, 2009 1:45PM | No Comments »
Zivity has got more attention than most recent Silicon Valley startups, mainly because it’s full of naked folks – the site is a kind of…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | July 28, 2009 12:11PM | No Comments »
It’s three years today until the 2012 Olympics begin, and there’s therefore been a torrent of opinion gushing through the media, oscillating between wide-eyed burbling, unashamed cynicism,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | July 27, 2009 3:23PM | 1 Comment »
While little banks in one horse towns keep going to the wall, and others enjoy profits large enough for your brain to not really comprehend…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 27, 2009 11:35AM | 1 Comment »
The noises made during recent months by Alastair Darling and Ed Miliband over the future of Britain’s energy generation have now been properly articulated in…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | July 16, 2009 11:49AM | No Comments »
It seems like only yesterday that Goldman Sachs was announcing its first quarter profits to an aghast world, and since then they’ve been…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 15, 2009 12:08PM | No Comments »
UKFI stands for UK Financial Investments, and it’s effectively a 9-person fund management company shacked up in the Treasury. After the government took out stakes…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 14, 2009 11:44AM | No Comments »
With its inept former board, massive losses, and harbouring of tax evaders, UBS is the uncoolest thing about Switzerland after Nazi gold and Lewis Hamilton.…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 13, 2009 11:09AM | No Comments »
There’s been bickering between grown men, there’s been political point-scoring, there’s been glimpses into a world so bureaucratically labyrinthine that it’s no wonder the world’s…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 9, 2009 11:42AM | No Comments »
