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Environmental and anti-poverty campaigners had hoped that the taxpayer’s majority shareholding in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) would mean the bank, which has styled…
Posted by Saoirse Fitzpatrick in Green Rush | December 9, 2009 3:14PM | 2 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 »
UKFI stands for UK Financial Investments, and it’s effectively a 9-person fund management company shacked up in the Treasury. After the government took out stakes…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 14, 2009 11:44AM | No Comments »
Royal Bank of Scotland, part-owned by the government and wholly-loathed by the British public after former chief exec Fred Goodwin became Mr Recession, are embroiled…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | June 22, 2009 11:22AM | No Comments »
If the financial crisis teaches us anything, it’s to avoid highly leveraged buyouts that attempt to make your company artificially bigger than its rivals. Classic…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | May 21, 2009 11:59AM | No Comments »
After demanding his £700,000 annual pension be paid, Fred Goodwin has become the number one target for those who desire a flesh-and-blood manifestation of the…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 7, 2009 12:54PM | 1 Comment »
The anger at the recession has been brewing for months now, but now there’s some actual flesh-and-blood people to direct cathartic venom towards (i.e. Goodwin…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 1, 2009 4:59PM | 1 Comment »
Investors in Lloyds have been waiting all weekend to voice their dissatisfaction with the bank’s government bailout, and they duly sent the share price sharply…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 9, 2009 12:50PM | No Comments »
Gordon Ramsay, the chef with a Norwegian coastal landscape for a face, has had his controversy levels bolstered by the news that he can’t seem…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 5, 2009 11:53AM | No Comments »
HSBC announcing a record rights issue has triggered a fresh loss of confidence in the financial sector, causing the FTSE to…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 2, 2009 2:12PM | No Comments »
Protectionism, the idea that you trade and manufacture goods and services within your own borders while discouraging international trade, has been gathering pace and heat…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 11, 2009 3:14PM | No Comments »
Posted by James Nash in Hot Money | February 11, 2009 12:30PM | No Comments »
