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JP Morgan: a tempest no longer in a teacup?
May 14, 2012 10:51 am 13 Comments
"... there has been a 'cultural breakdown' at the bank, not by a lone 'rogue trader' but by the entire team in the trusted department in which the losses occurred."
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What could 2012 hold?
December 27, 2011 11:58 am 23 Comments
In 2012, the stage is set at many levels for financial and consequent economic disaster, writes Jon Snow.
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Who understands ‘the bubble’?
November 21, 2011 8:38 am 39 Comments
Jon Snow compares the experience of his own grandfather to the bankers of today and asks if anyone really understands "the bubble"?
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Why have no bankers been arrested?
September 13, 2011 9:48 am 95 Comments
Three years after the global financial crisis and the virtual implosion of the British banking system, Jon Snow asks why no bankers have yet been prosecuted.
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A crisis that may affect us for the rest of our lives
July 19, 2011 6:51 am 47 Comments
"No one knows where it would end... Dublin? Madrid? Lisbon? Rome? Shiver our timbers... London?"
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Something ugly in the woodshed
June 17, 2010 10:46 am 52 Comments
Spain is in the frame again...stress testing her banks seems not to have been a particularly reassuring experience.
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Thanks banks!
June 14, 2010 9:48 am 10 Comments
The authoritative Which? Commission report (Chaired by David Davies MP) tells it like it is. In the 21st century we get a rotten service.
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Why the banks have stopped lending
October 28, 2009 11:59 am 22 Comments
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow insists there are no signs of increaed credit being made available in Europe despite the campaigns by politicians and senior economists.
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Hold your breath and hope the governor is wrong
October 22, 2009 2:35 pm 11 Comments
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow says he is not surprised to read the Bank of England governor Mervyn King and Gordon Brown have different views about breaking up the mega-banks.
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A glimmer of credit crunch justice
July 3, 2009 2:08 pm No Comments
I have blogged before about one of the best yet most under-used economic indicators, the Baltic Dry Index. This charts the movement (or lack of) of the world’s shipping. To add to what I said, last month refrigerated-shipping operator Eastwind Maritime filed for bankruptcy in New York. Sweden’s Nordea bank seized and sold on 13 [...]

