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The Swiss Miss Bankers
Editor / 10 December 2008 / Leave a comment
Years ago, when Swiss Banks were Swiss banks, they used to charge non-Swiss people for the privilege of keeping their money in Swiss banks; a sort of negative interest.... Read more »
Heralding The Tribune Jinks
Editor / 09 December 2008 / Leave a comment
LESS than six hours after Anorak pointed out that the Tribune Group only had themselves to blame for the inevitable consequences of the lunatically leveraged $13 billion buy-out last year, they filed for bankruptcy.... Read more »
Lehman Brothers Beaten Again
Editor / 01 December 2008 / Leave a comment
YOU want to know how safe your money is?... Read more »
Shoplifters Of The World Buck The Recession
Editor / 30 November 2008 / Leave a comment
It's at times like these when I realise that Britain is not what it was; the NYT reports on 'Silver-Haired Shoplifters On the Rise In Japan' and what are we Brits doing to catch up with our Asian counterparts?... Read more »
VAT Fraud And Market Dumbness
Editor / 26 November 2008 / Leave a comment
IT'S always nice to see the faint glimmerings of comprehension in the old media when it comes to justifying their massive expenditure on business and financial journalists, but I'm disappointed in so many of them missing the blindingly obvious on... Read more »
Oil Will Be Back
Editor / 12 November 2008 / Leave a comment
VERY soon the oil in your car's engine will be worth more than the car. And this is not to say that the oil prices are going up faster than a Spanish housing estate.... Read more »
Obama Bounces Like A Dead Bush
Editor / 06 November 2008 / Leave a comment
MAKING money in the credit crunch: Going long on Obamas. THIS morning the FTSE experience its biggest ever tenth-of-a-second fall. Fact!... Read more »
Fiddling Big Pharma
Editor / 04 November 2008 / Leave a comment
A little off topic, but here's one about big pharma, George Bush and a one-armed violinist: I don't really have it in for the US Food and Drug Administration, one of the many failed regulators of the Bush/Blair era, but... Read more »
Lloyds TSB Calls House
Editor / 31 October 2008 / Leave a comment
THERE is a rumour sweeping the City of London that Business Secretary Peter Mandelson might rubber-stamp the Lloyds TSB HBOS merger deal creating Britain's largest bank as early as today.... Read more »
Bet On The Unsound Pound
Editor / 30 October 2008 / Leave a comment
WANT to know how to profit from the weak pound? And is it ever weak. The pound was valued at $1.55 yesterday after being close to $2 for two years.... Read more »
School For Bankers
Editor / 28 October 2008 / Leave a comment
ONE of the nastier sides of the way the titans of Wall St shafted anyone in sight is emerging; investigative reporters at Bloomberg have put together the sort of story which is so nasty that people are refusing to return... Read more »
JP Morgan: A Manga Romance
Editor / 13 October 2008 / Leave a comment
We've been closely following this tragedy as it unfolded; the engagement that was broken off, the marriage that was never consummated, but last week we thought that finally they would tie the knot.... Read more »
Old Money Knows Where To Go
Editor / 03 October 2008 / Leave a comment
ELDERLY (that seems to be 50 plus this week) Euro shakers and movers are scrambling to shift their money and interests around today. Not quite being able to make up their befuddled, creaking, ageing minds.... Read more »
Please Give Generously
Editor / 30 September 2008 / Leave a comment
DEAR TRADEFAIR PLAYER: I NEED TO ASK YOU TO SUPPORT AN URGENT SECRET BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP WITH A TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF GREAT MAGNITUDE.... Read more »
