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…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | October 27, 2009 1:09PM | No Comments »
Political point-scoring never really goes away, but with the general election looming inevitably next year the whole “cuts” saga has taken on an extra cattiness…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 21, 2009 12:45PM | No Comments »
Just yesterday we were fretting about the pace of payback to the Treasury allowing the banks to run ahead of planned regulatory reform, and as…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 10, 2009 11:06AM | No Comments »
Much of yesterday’s Treasury Select Committee meeting was devoted to chat about the FSA, in particular the sacking of HBOS group risk manager…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 11, 2009 11:52AM | No Comments »
Robert Peston, journalist extraordinaire and credit-crunch hunk o’ burnin’ love, met the Treasury Select Committee to answer questions over allegations he damaged the…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 5, 2009 3:06PM | 1 Comment »
Davos, the snowy Swiss vale that plays host to the World Economic Forum every year, has this time been less a self-congratulatory haven for hearty…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 30, 2009 11:56AM | 1 Comment »