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Today’s bailout of banking monster Citigroup seems particularly limp wristed – no resignations of senior management, an unenforceable ‘promise’ that bonuses will be scaled back,…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | November 24, 2008 10:51AM | 2 Comments »
Last year in February, when I was writing about new rave kids for a feature on 2007’s trend du jour, and hanging out with sloppy…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Creative Economy | November 17, 2008 12:54PM | 1 Comment »
It was bound to happen eventually – the US bailout plan, following another massive hit from black-hole insurer AIG (who requested another $40 billion from…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | November 12, 2008 10:59AM | 1 Comment »
Now that anyone under thirty can officially consider themselves firmly a part of generation sub-prime, it looks like the days of mooching around and taking…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | November 11, 2008 11:19AM | 3 Comments »
In the world of finance, we’ve entered a nice little patch of tortoise economics. Simple, bland institutions are gloating at slick, risk taking ones. Boring…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | November 10, 2008 12:33PM | 4 Comments »
Remember how the Russians used to keep the whole contemporary art market afloat? How just last month Larry Gagosian admitted the Ruskis generated…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Creative Economy | November 7, 2008 11:13AM | 2 Comments »
American pop culture digest (and one of our favourite new mags) Radar, has just announced it will fold as of today. An alert has been…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Creative Economy | October 24, 2008 5:56PM | No Comments »
The New York Times newspaper, figurehead of decent journalism globally and all around nice institution, looks like it’s suffering some serious pain at the moment.…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Creative Economy | October 24, 2008 9:17AM | 5 Comments »
In 2006 money mag Forbes led a piece about corporate philanthropy titled ‘The Legend of Robin Hood’ with the paragraph:
“How the leaders…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | October 22, 2008 1:25PM | 1 Comment »
The WSJ is reporting today that, in the US, there hasn’t been an initial public offering for 10 weeks. That’s a record since Thomson Reuters…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | October 21, 2008 10:39AM | No Comments »
So, some quite interesting reports about the Russia/Iceland €4 billion bailout deal today. Appears that Iceland has given up on the Russians and…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | October 20, 2008 1:31PM | No Comments »
While the former Fed chief has been taking heavy flack from finance experts for quite some months, since the NY Times waded in with a…
Posted by Daniel Stacey in Hot Money | October 19, 2008 9:33PM | No Comments »
