As we wait for news on financial regulation today from both the US and UK Treasuries, various survivors of the crisis are throwing their two…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | June 17, 2009 1:15PM | No Comments »
It’s finally here! The day of reckoning is upon us. Fred Goodwin, the world’s worst banker, whose seven year ego-maniacal trip at the…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | February 3, 2009 11:42AM | 3 Comments »
Another Amazon quarterly earnings call today, and another big puff of smoke in the face of UK readers waiting for the wazzo Kindle…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Sci-tech | January 30, 2009 7:41PM | 4 Comments »
News just through on a suspected plagiarism scandal involving President Obama’s speech writer Jon Favreau. It appears that the inauguration speech for the 44th US…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Other | January 21, 2009 1:47PM | 2 Comments »
Another artifact for the ‘creepy projects that Google’s inordinate cashflow allows its sun-starved employees to do’ archives. The Google Analytics team has released its own…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Sci-tech | January 14, 2009 11:21AM | 3 Comments »
Forget Dick Fuld, forget Charles O. Prince III, the world’s worst banker is officially right here on our shores – Fred “the Shred” Goodwin, departing…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | December 4, 2008 9:01AM | 3 Comments »
Lloyds shareholders will vote on the HBOS merger (read takeover) in Glasgow today, but strangely there has been no comment so far from our ‘banking…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | November 19, 2008 11:48AM | 2 Comments »
In case you missed the memo, all of Scotland is apparently getting ready for one almighty shit fight about the Lloyd’s/HBOS merger. Now that it’s…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | November 10, 2008 3:54PM | 1 Comment »
Hey Greedheads! Obama is going to win… even the political futures market is listing the probability of a Democratic presidential victory at 91.2…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Hot Money | November 4, 2008 11:34AM | No Comments »
Is it really true? The Observer has reported that the Independent may be sold to the Daily Mail owner Daily Mail and General Trust (for…
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Posted by Jonty Rhodes in Creative Economy | November 3, 2008 8:53AM | No Comments »