Category: Credit crisis

The Purpose of Profits (Part 1)

An editorial in today’s Guardian is so incoherent that I find myself reluctantly putting down the analysis-free report to the

OK, I can remember exactly where I was on 9/11; when I heard about the Challenger and Columbia disasters, the

The writer who comes to mind this weekend is the peerless Tom Wolfe. Bo-oring, I hear you say, another reference

Gordon Brown, no doubt, approved the outlines of last week’s bailout of the government by the banks. I suspect the

Several agendas – or should that be “agendae”?; I told you there was a brave attempt to teach me Latin

We should never have let them have all the cod! It helped make Iceland one of the richest countries in

This piece was prepared for the Guardian’s excellent Comment is Free (CiF) site, and appears there under the title “Risky

Darling, what have you done? I’m beginning to think you’re not really trying. Still, if I were you, I’d probably

The reaction in the US to Paulson’s $700bn bailout plan has been quite incredible. Now I see in the NYT