Fred Goodwin has just received his own shredding at the hands of the Treasury Select Committee, along with Andy Hornby, Lord Stevenson and Sir Tom…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | February 10, 2009 3:33PM | 1 Comment »
Last week J D Wetherspoon announced it was making it their mission to offer 99p pints to the poor and destitute seeking beery reprieve within…
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Posted by Trista Orchard in Hot Money | January 22, 2009 6:05PM | 2 Comments »
Predictably, everyone’s in a right tizz about Alistair Darling’s new bailout package, mostly the bit about insuring against toxic assets, and the lack…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 20, 2009 3:34PM | No Comments »
After a couple of months of bailout cash stubbornly refusing to percolate down to the masses, here we are again – Alistair DarlingĀ has…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 19, 2009 11:16AM | 2 Comments »
The Christmas party season, the time when executives lavish canapes, booze, and anonymous dark cornersĀ on their underlings to help them forget about the vast amounts…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 23, 2008 11:38AM | 2 Comments »
The financial world’s panto villain for this season has emerged in the form of Bernard Madoff, the investment adviser whose investment unit Madoff Investment Securities…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 15, 2008 2:05PM | 1 Comment »
The professional gambling circuit was left stunned yesterday as New Star, one of the UK’s largest hedge funds, flailed around trying to stay…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 2, 2008 11:32AM | 1 Comment »
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 »