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First up, …
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 17, 2008 1:56PM | 4 Comments »
The Bernard Madoff fraud looks like it’s leaving the initial “shock” phase, and moving towards the “rage”, “guilt” and “gloating anti-semitism” zones.
First, the rage.…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 17, 2008 1:26PM | 5 Comments »
Shares in Phorm, the internet tech company that teeters on the brink of legality, have risen after they announced yesterday that BT was moving…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 16, 2008 4:23PM | 4 Comments »
The Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme went on claiming scalps throughout yesterday, some troubling, some massively incensing, some instilling a guilty schaudenfraude.
Worst of all of…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 16, 2008 12:57PM | 1 Comment »
Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn diligently posts a blog of instances where taxpayer money has been wasted, and just like a nerdy music lover,
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 15, 2008 7:26PM | No 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…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 15, 2008 2:05PM | 1 Comment »
Wow. Wouldn’t it be hi-larious if you played for Oxford University’s under-21 rugby team and went to a society dinner dressed as a Hasidic…
Posted by Huw Nesbitt in Other | December 14, 2008 4:07PM | 4 Comments »
Last week we had a look at wee little Sark, with its arcane laws regarding unspayed dogs and attempted takeovers by unemployed French…
Posted by Jennifer Allan in Other | December 12, 2008 4:46PM | 3 Comments »
We’ve already seen how everyone’s staying in and playing video games now the recession has begun, and now a new tranche of lameness…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 12, 2008 2:30PM | 4 Comments »
The music industry received a “shock” earlier this week when it was told it must officially do what’s its been powerless not to do over…
Posted by Ruth Stokes in Creative Economy | December 11, 2008 5:15PM | 1 Comment »
So first we had banks bailed out. Then guys like Adolf Merckle wanted the personal bailout treatment (not that he…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 10, 2008 1:48PM | 2 Comments »
Last week VW chiefs cashed their share chips in at just the right time, netting €25m between them and presumably having a nice…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 9, 2008 2:54PM | 1 Comment »
