Category Archives: Banks

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Small Is Beautiful

14Apr09 – 13:08

Let us move on from the irrelevance that is "smeargate" and write something serious about the economy, for no matter how irritating I might find the duplicitous machinations of the Tory spin machine and it's pretense that the Tories are polishing their halo's, politics should be about issues. So, today I'm going to talk about [...]

By Andreas Paterson | Also posted in Economy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Dead Man Walking

26Mar09 – 00:54

It may be a testimony to David Cameron's party leadership that he will shortly have to sack his main economic spokesman at a time that you could reasonably expect Government scalps to be hanging from his belt.
If the private polling that he is reading is telling him what the CEO of ComRes told the London [...]

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Tories | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Told you so

16Mar09 – 00:48

I am rarely in a position to say "told you so" but someone who is in a great position to utter those words is Naseem Nicholas Taleb.  I am nearing the end of his book The Black Swan (published in 2007) and on page 225 he says:
We have never lived before under the threat of [...]

By Andrew Skudder | Also posted in Economy | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

The Future of Capitalism

09Mar09 – 14:11

Martin Wolf is kicking off a debate on where capitalism is going next over on the FT. It's well worth a read.

By Andreas Paterson | Also posted in Capitalism, Economy | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Economic Roundup, Friday 6th March

06Mar09 – 14:16

This week, we hear that a trillion is the new billion, and once again take a light hearted look into all things gloomy in the economy:

Come the revolution, the moneyed classes will be among the first against the wall. Your correspondent is tempted to put in a good word for private equity boss Guy Hands [...]

By Andreas Paterson | Also posted in Capitalism, Economy | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Stanford International Bank

15Feb09 – 12:01

It's a large private bank that's delivered higher than average returns year on year, it looks too good to be true and the word on the blogosphere is it just might be. (Via Tim Worstall)

UPDATE: There's more

By Andreas Paterson | Comments (1)

Give up the bonus!

10Feb09 – 13:05

Tell RBS that you don't get a bonus when you cost the taxpayer £billions.

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Capitalism | Tagged , | Comments (1)