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Yesterday Warren Buffett, the world’s second richest but most twinkly man, made what one hedge fund manager described as “his last meaningful deal”…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | November 4, 2009 12:41PM | No Comments »
Paypal is stepping its game up this week by announcing its plans to go into the third-party application market. They’re not just developing some keeping-up-with-the-Joneses…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | November 3, 2009 12:02PM | 1 Comment »
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 »
More baby steps towards those rather daunting UK emissions targets: Centrica, the energy provider, has announced plans to build another off-shore wind farm…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | October 29, 2009 1:32PM | 1 Comment »
It’s the least surprising media news this month, but the London Lite, the freesheet that has clogged many a tube aisle over the last few…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | October 28, 2009 11:58AM | 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 »
I hope you’ve prepared the tabbouleh and gathered your demographically diverse gang of buddies around the breakfast bar, because it’s WINDOWS 7 PARTAY TIME. Yes,…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | October 22, 2009 12:03PM | 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 | 1 Comment »
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 »
China’s taste for foreign oil continues this week with a trip to Ghana, where they’re jostling with Exxon to buy up a field previously owned…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | October 13, 2009 11:09AM | No Comments »
What with Christmas books like “Here’s My Annual Cash Cow” by Peter Kay and “Socialnomics: You’ll Buy This Because It Has ‘nomics’ In The Title”…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | October 8, 2009 12:37PM | 4 Comments »
