The Hacker / Brown response to a scandal in the City
There are parallels between the response of prime minister Gordon Brown to scandal in the City — the hiring of […]
February 2009
A player retreats: Fred Goodwin’s £200m splurge on sporting celebs is over
In a press release trumpeting a multi-million, five-year sponsorship deal with the Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar, dated 18 September
HBOS’s £11 billion losses the tip of the iceberg for credulous Blank and Daniels
Why is Andy Hornby looking so pleased with himself? Could it be that, in agreeing to a takeover of HBOS
‘Bling’ Crosby’s day of reckoning
This charade of apology is a diversion from bankers’ role in financial destruction Edith Piaf’s chanson “Non, Je Ne Regrette
Did Crosby do anything to ensure that HBOS’s wheels didn’t come off?
Sir James Crosby — who was last seen driving an eco-unfriendly “Chelsea tractor” with blacked out windows out of the
Unfab Four: bosses of failed banks RBS and HBOS grilled by Treasury Committee, 9 February 2009, and why Crosby must step down from FSA
It was a case of “we’re sorry but we’re not to blame” at the Treasury Select Committee hearing on Tuesday
The curious incident of the regulator in the night–time
The media is barking up the wrong tree. Instead of obsessing about bonuses, they should be focusing on the HBOS
Stiglitz: Britain should have let basket case banks go bust
Professor Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist and author of Globalization and its Discontents, has said that the UK should