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The inexorable grip of the American tax man is starting to tighten around UBS and their tax-evading customers. Steven Rubenstein was the first…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | April 9, 2009 12:21PM | No Comments »
The newspaper business in the US continues to flounder and gasp for revenue, with the news last week that the venerable Boston Globe…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 6, 2009 3:17PM | 3 Comments »
AIG has once again been paying out sums of money so enormous that you need to annex part of your brain just to comprehend them.…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 17, 2009 2:58PM | 2 Comments »
Short selling, the practice of betting on a fall in the share price of a company, was banned as Lehman fell back in September, and…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | March 11, 2009 1:22PM | 1 Comment »
Rupert Murdoch announced Wednesday night that News Corp lost $6.4bn in the last quarter, and that he expected a 30% drop in income…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | February 6, 2009 2:11PM | 1 Comment »
As the anti-Semitic comments left on our own site have reminded us, the internet is the echo chamber where crazy notions go to…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | January 14, 2009 12:01PM | 4 Comments »
As well as the aforementioned resolutions, the first week in January also sees everyone going into soothsayer mode and ruminating on the future…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Other | January 5, 2009 3:21PM | 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 »
Yes, it’s that man again… Last week we told you how Felix Dennis totally played Wall Street private equity hotshots Quadrangle, having…
Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | December 3, 2008 2:00PM | 2 Comments »
The congressional hearings that have been striking fear into the Masters Of The Universe of late turned to the hedge fund…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 14, 2008 10:39AM | 1 Comment »
Christmas should be a wonderful time of loving and giving, but the financial crisis is putting paid to all that nonsense. First we had…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 11, 2008 10:12AM | 1 Comment »
Is the luxury market doomed, or not? The headlines over the last few weeks have swung around like a bored housewife – “Luxury…
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | November 10, 2008 12:06PM | 2 Comments »
