Angus Macdonald: the secret is to persuade people their waste can be someone’s raw material
Interview of the week: Angus Macdonald A little over three years ago, Angus MacDonald saw the future… and he decided […]
2010
Two steps forward … is the recovery of state-rescued banks RBS and Lloyds a chimera?
Three years after the onset of the credit crisis, when British banks including RBS and Lloyds narrowly avoided bankruptcy thanks
Clueless banks happy to drift in a sea of inexactitude
Do the world’s leading banks have a firm handle on the true value of their assets, risk exposure (including the
Why Lloyds TSB’s “for the journey” ad campaign makes me feel queasy
Am I alone in finding the “For the journey” television commercials for Lloyds TSB (early example above) nauseating? I would
Hugh Hendry’s vision may be apocalyptic, but he’s still the acceptable face of hedge funds
The Scots hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry has lately become something of a media darling thanks to his sheer outspoken-ness.
Nonchalance of UKFI’s Robin Budenberg suggests UK government learnt nothing from banking crisis
The coalition government is reverting to type where appointments to UK Financial Investments, the vehicle established by the Labour government
Bank of Scotland Reading scandal suggests something was rotten at heart of HBOS [November 2008]
This article was written by Paul Hutcheon and me in November 2008 but has never before been published in its
What’s in a name? As failed accountants Vantis serially phoenix, Beavis and FRP by other names could smell as stale
A couple of new names have risen in the accountancy and insolvency practitioner firmament —Beavis Morgan and FRP Advisory. But
It’s the Friedrich Hayek vs. John Maynard Keynes Rap (Part One)
This rap anthem featuring 20th century economists Friedrich August Hayek and John Maynard Keynes neatly encapsulates the ideological gulf between
Bust aviation firm bought for £7
Buy-back deal allows aviation firm Corporate Jet Services directors to avoid millions of pounds of debt to unsecured creditors Directors
Will Osborne’s shock therapy kill or cure the English patient?
Britain’s new chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, has this week come in for stinging abuse from neo-Keynesians, left-wing commentators
The inanity of corporate makeovers: Dixons became Dubious, Silly & Gratuitous after a Dreadful Summer for Gadgets (DSG)!
The absurdities of short term corporate makeovers are hilariously exposed by Andrew Hill, in today’s Lombard column in the Financial
Zermatt Summit: great and the good gather to ‘humanise globalisation’
The ghost of a dead economist was haunting the Zermatt Summit, a new annual event on the subject of ‘humanizing
Here’s hoping for a saner libel regime
The UK libel laws are so biased towards deep-pocketed litigants eager to block free speech that the UK was recently
Have the Bilderbergers shed their shroud of secrecy?
The Bilderberg Meetings have traditionally been shrouded in secrecy. But this year, for the first time ever, the organisers have
Putting the house in order
With a new government tackling the nation’s finances, political flash points will appear, warns Ian Fraser With the unprecedented political
Willam K Black: Many banks set out to defraud, but the authorities continue to turn a blind eye
It is astonishing that none of the bank executives who defrauded their own banks for personal gain before bringing down
FSA sued over “botched” Cameron Farley case
Investors say they lost £20m when Cameron Farley’s assets were not frozen. By Ian Fraser IT was a scene that
I’m still in the game, says Murray, as Lloyds calls the shots
The tycoon, whose wealth has shrunk, tells Ian Fraser he has made mistakes but is bullish on the future Sir
Banks need unified global rules, says Lloyds chair Win Bischoff
SIR WIN BISCHOFF, chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, which is 41% owned by the British state, has said governments and
Scottish Agenda: We can’t rely on bankers to curb bankers’ pay
The Labour government’s laissez-faire approach to executive pay was to assume the market’s hidden hand would do its work. From