Blog posts tagged "financial crisis"

March 21, 2011 10:29 am 21 Comments

Jon tips his cap to Inside Job, the Oscar-winning documentary which exposed some startling home truths about the avoidability of the 2008 financial meltdown, blogs Jon Snow.

October 4, 2010 9:53 am 36 Comments

A financier whom I know calls me over the weekend about the Irish financial crisis. “Jon”, he says, “I trust you know that 80 per cent of the Irish banking crisis was caused by a handful of property developers taking massive punts on the housing and construction market?”

April 28, 2010 7:39 am 73 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on the financial crisis hitting Greece whether Portugal, Spain and Italy could face their own problems.

March 17, 2010 12:22 pm 14 Comments

Alexis Stenfors, a 39-year-old trader who lost Merrill Lynch millions and then tried to cover his tracks, is an every day story of the complete Alice-in-Wonderland world in which the 2008 crash was engineered, writes Jon Snow.

November 17, 2009 12:23 pm No Comments

The ingredients are falling into place for another global financial crisis, blogs Jon Snow. And if it happens, the examples of Ireland and Iceland should serve to remind the UK that size matters.

November 3, 2009 11:10 am 17 Comments

As Lord Myners admits that 70 per cent of all share dealing is undertaken by computer systems that allow a trader to hold a share for a nanosecond before selling, Jon Snow asks: is it a good thing to have achieved the socialist ideal of a nationalised RBS bank?