It’s been away for a few months, but our unique literary event, The Butcher’s Shop, is back for a one-off sci-fi special on…
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Posted by The Bad Idea Team in Events, Podcasts & Video | August 27, 2009 12:44PM | 3 Comments »
Sometimes you wonder if financial regulators can only spot wrong-doing when it gets chucked onto their desk in a folder marked “WRONG-DOING”. First there was…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 27, 2009 11:00AM | 1 Comment »
While executive pay has taken a rather misleading headline billing in the popular imagination as to why the recession happened, its nevertheless potentially damaging to…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 26, 2009 11:47AM | No Comments »
American TV network CBS has teamed up with Pepsi to bring video advertising into print, with an upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly featuring…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | August 20, 2009 2:09PM | 7 Comments »
Bloomberg’s headline writers have a puckish humour that sits sweetly out of place with its dry, numbers-changing-on-screen image, and “Madoff Lover Stuck With…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 19, 2009 11:27AM | 5 Comments »
Newsnight’s all well and good with its even-handed approach, but sometimes you want something different from your news analysis show, like incendiary personal opinions backed…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | August 17, 2009 1:52PM | 5 Comments »
See, this is what we were talking about when we said the FSA had lost its balls. Just after the supposed financial services…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 17, 2009 11:21AM | 1 Comment »
The dispute between UBS and the American tax man, where the US wanted names of account holders it said were avoiding paying tax and UBS…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 13, 2009 11:31AM | 3 Comments »
Remuneration is one of the most viciously debated issues during the banking crisis – tabloids screaming for an end to those generically-labelled “banker bonuses”, the…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | August 12, 2009 2:30PM | No Comments »
After the PR face-off a couple of months ago between the next-gen Toyota Prius and Honda Insight, two more green motors are now…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | August 12, 2009 11:52AM | 6 Comments »