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 […]
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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
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
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
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
The SEC’s case against Goldman Sachs is a turning point for Wall Street
The torrent of speculation surrounding the SEC’s attempt to nail the “giant vampire squid” (a.k.a. Goldman Sachs) over alleged fraudulence
Brown is “shocked, shocked” to discover gambling’s been going on
Gordon Brown has condemned Goldman Sachs for defrauding buyers of a toxic CDO yet has condoned similar activities by British
The secrets and lies of Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown recently branded Goldman Sachs “morally bankrupt” and asked the FSA to investigate it. Yet he has turned a
Dodd’s bill won’t prevent another crisis
Breaking up is the hardest things to do … Three years since the onset of the crisis, the United States
‘The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell’
I’ve just been reading the musings of Keith Yost, a disillusioned former Boston Consulting Group insider. In a series of
Gordon Brown commissioned the Don Cruikshank report on banking, then largely ignored it
TEN years after Don Cruickshank published his Review of Banking Services is a good time to take stock of Gordon
‘Big Four’ audit firms admit they misrepresented bank solvency pre-crisis
I was shocked by the testimony given by the heads of the “Big Four” accountancy firms — PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte,
US rescue plan: Stiglitz vs Gold
Three years after the crisis began is as good a time as any to take stock of the US policy
It was not lack of regulation, but lack of ethics, that killed The Street
The former Salomon Brothers bond trader who lifted the lid on sharp practice in Wall Street with Liar’s Poker in
Time for Sarbox to be rethought post-Valukas
The time bombs detonated by the court-appointed Examiner’s Report into the collapse of Lehman Brothers have by no means all