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 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 »
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 »
A couple of days back we had a look at Norman Lamont joining the board of Phorm, the shady internet advertising firm that…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Sci-tech | December 4, 2008 11:55AM | 12 Comments »
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, 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »