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Posts Tagged ‘UK financial crisis blog’

Sam Zell’s Tribune Newspaper Group Files For Bankruptcy, American Media Bites Nails

Print media continues to look squarely down the barrel of a gun with the news that Tribune, the US publishing company that owns

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | December 9, 2008 1:25PM | 2 Comments »


Stephen Harper’s Canadian Parliament Funkier Than George Clinton’s

Canada was unusually thrust into the centre of the world politics last week when (Prices of maple syrup dropped? Beavers attacked the capital? The U.S.…

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Posted by Carmody Wilson in Other | December 8, 2008 5:16PM | 5 Comments »


TalkSport Get £20,000 Reminder Why Not To Employ Really Crass, Offensive People

TalkSport has been fined £20,000 today, thanks to rightwing nut-job James Whale (pictured in attire not befitting his age, left) telling everyone to go and…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | December 8, 2008 4:36PM | 6 Comments »


Video Games Industry Rich And Smug, Still Secretly Traumatised By Earlier Wedgie Incidents, Still Can't Talk To Girls

Video Games Industry Has Superman Moment

Back in those heady days in October when financial excrement hit fans worldwide, Playstation boss Kaz Hirai said that the video games industry

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 8, 2008 1:38PM | 1 Comment »


Adolf Merckle Sees Empire Crumble, Tries Not To Explode With Rage As VW Chiefs Collect €25m Payday



GM, Ford, Chrysler Execs Promise To Give Up Private Jets After Everyone Completely Misses The Point

Remember when it was revealed that Sarah Palin had spent all that money on clothes, sending the media and politicians alike totally nuts? As if…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 3, 2008 12:32PM | 4 Comments »


Goldman Sachs Finally Has To Stop Being So Smug That It Avoided Subprime After $2.2bn Quarterly Loss

Goldman Sachs Finally Has To Stop Being So Smug That It Avoided Subprime, After $2.2bn Quarterly Loss Announced Today

Goldman Sachs, one of the very, very few American banks not to get hurt by the subprime crisis thanks to now-legendarily hedging on

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 3, 2008 11:00AM | 1 Comment »


Donald Trump Can’t Afford Interest Bills, Bricks-And-Mortar Manifestations Of His Ego

A month back we had a look at how thatch-haired pseudo-Scot Donald Trump was faring in all this, and aside from paying for…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | December 2, 2008 1:57PM | 3 Comments »


New Star Is Burning Out, But Luckily Their CEO Has Worked Out The Secrets Of The Universe

New Star Is Burning Out, But Luckily Their CEO Has Worked Out The Secrets Of The Universe

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 »


Chavez And Medvedev Get Even Cosier, Start Decorating One Another

Chavez And Medvedev Get Even Cosier, Start Decorating One Another

In the nebulous world of Russian diplomacy a promised outcome is not always a sure one, but late last week Russian President Dmitry Medvedev…

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Posted by Carmody Wilson in Green Rush | December 1, 2008 1:50PM | 2 Comments »