The constant upswing in the banking sector means everyone’s paying back their government money at such a rate that it’s starting to make last autumn…
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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | June 15, 2009 11:13AM | No Comments »
Film premiers are usually the arena for dull, self congratulatory speeches and some cinema theory babble.
Not so the Frost/Nixon Q&A premier last night (apart…
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Posted by Becky North in Other | January 23, 2009 2:14PM | 3 Comments »
Times are tough, and with Christmas around the corner and all the expenses of gifts/turkeys/crackers full of cocaine adding up, celebs like Kate Moss are…
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Posted by Becky North in Other | December 5, 2008 12:34PM | 1 Comment »
We already knew that President elect Barack Obama has a Blackberry addiction and is totally savvy with social networking. But now…
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Posted by Becky North in Creative Economy | December 2, 2008 11:15AM | 4 Comments »
The Barclays shareholder meeting yesterday may have paved the way for the Middle East capital injection/rough-shod bailout to go ahead, but it definitely didn’t clear…
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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | November 25, 2008 11:56AM | 3 Comments »
So it’s apparent that something funny is going on with Warren Buffett’s investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway. Those big investments in Goldman Sachs and…
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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | November 21, 2008 1:03PM | 9 Comments »
Seems that Topshop boss Philip Green is not so upbeat about retail anymore, despite harping on a few weeks back about how young…
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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | November 20, 2008 12:00PM | 6 Comments »
The Tories have announced their new ‘We’re not just an inexperienced version of Labour’ policy agenda, and no one really likes it. Their core idea…
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Posted by Becky North in Other | November 19, 2008 12:51PM | 1 Comment »
Italy’s €80 billion bailout has been receiving a grilling, as commentators look into the shady money logic of prime minister Berlusconi.
Shadow economic spokesman Pierluigi…
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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | November 18, 2008 3:06PM | 2 Comments »
The FT’s man on the ground in Iceland Robert Jackson admitted in the paper’s weekend magazine he’s lost big in the meltdown. “Recent events… savaged…
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Posted by Becky North in Hot Money | November 17, 2008 3:02AM | 1 Comment »
So we know Obama can get tiring sometimes – all the relentless media coverage, the expectation, the audacity of hope… but that’s no reason…
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Posted by Becky North in Other | November 13, 2008 12:10PM | 5 Comments »
Remember all that doom and gloom about Youtube, and how it was going to be sued out of existence? Well, it looks like…
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Posted by Becky North in Creative Economy | November 12, 2008 11:55AM | 4 Comments »