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Last October the UK economy was expected to have grown once again, and the recession therefore to be called to an end, but it’s taken…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 1, 2010 12:14PM | 1 Comment »
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, an arm of the UN, the global food crisis is worsening. In 2009, over 1 billion people were…
Posted by Mike Smith in Hot Money | December 17, 2009 5:48PM | 1 Comment »
The trickle-down structure of technology rollout across the world usually reads thus: something starts in Japan or Silicon Valley, blows minds, and makes its way…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 10, 2009 2:51PM | 1 Comment »
‘An Englishman’s home is his castle’ – so the saying goes, and so the evidence suggests. But there are signs the ongoing British obsession…
Posted by Chris Baraniuk in Hot Money | December 4, 2009 11:42AM | 3 Comments »
We sip wine, we gulp water. Good manners? Actually, basic economics. Water is relatively abundant and cheap, wine scarce and dear.
So if…
Posted by John Rapley in Hot Money | December 3, 2009 1:04PM | 2 Comments »
We’ve already noticed how Oswald Grubel, chief exec of UBS, has a dogged positivity usually associated with Portsmouth managers, evangelical Christians and the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 18, 2009 12:17PM | No Comments »
UBS really can’t catch a break. In the last year they’ve harboured tax evaders, created a diplomatic spat with the US,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 6, 2009 12:08PM | No Comments »
RBS, poster boy of the financial crisis and 70% owned by the government, is finding that despite being in a much smaller banking sector, no…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 2, 2009 12:34PM | No Comments »
Previous news of mid-recession banker bonuses was met with house-vandalising, incoherent street marching outrage and shock, presumably because most people hadn’t realised just how much…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 27, 2009 1:09PM | No Comments »
It looked like hedge funds were beginning to claw back the profits and respectability they lost during the banking crisis, albeit with…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 20, 2009 12:22PM | No Comments »
Owning a house in the UK or US is not just a chance for people to own a sizeable asset, it’s tied inextricably to social…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 19, 2009 11:21AM | No Comments »
The hedge fund industry in a recession is like a week too long in Vegas, or dating someone with a personality disorder – a rollercoaster…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 14, 2009 11:47AM | No Comments »
