Indian Summer blooms
The Jodhpur landscape paintings move into exploring planes and colour fields, more like Rothko than Rajasthan. I feel a desperate…
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Strauss-Kahn's suspicions
One man overviews the whole world, and his view is disturbing in the extreme. While Obama and Geithner, Sarkozy and…
ByIs Big Brother listening?
Surprisingly, Russell Tice was not challenged about his credentials or the validity of his assertions. A man claiming to be…
ByHedge funds enter positive territory in January
Hedge funds moved back to positive territory during January, according to the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index. Overall, the index…
ByTimes: City firms join global Madoff alliance
Three City law firms have joined a world alliance of legal firms representing claimants who lost out in the alleged…
ByBreaking: Stanford accused of $8bn fraud
Stopping what it called a “massive ongoing fraud,” the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday accused Robert Allen Stanford, the…
ByNight Terrors
As if global economic meltdown wasn’t enough, Barack Obama has a terrifying array of security-related concerns to keep him awake…
ByHi-Ho, Hi-Ho! It’s Off the Cliff We Go!
Jeremy McGivern on the flawed logic and mindless herd instinct that led so many property investors over the edge and…
ByDon’t Have a Kowloon, Man
For anybody wanting to flee the gloom of London, there’s a whiff of optimism to be found in the Far…
ByBreaking: Inflation eases to 3%
Inflation in January registered a much larger year-on-year rise than many economists had expected, given falling costs of fuel and…
ByVanessa Neumann on Newsnight
Watch Spear’s columnist and blogger Vanessa Neumann on the BBC discussing the Venezuelan election. Dr Vanessa Neumann, as well as…
ByGuardian: Lloyds looking at more HBOS write-offs
Lloyds could be forced to write off a further swath of loans made by HBOS to hundreds of companies, after…
ByCity bankers turning to the Treasury?
City bankers are being urged to tailor their CVs to the one institution still hiring in the downturn: the UK…
ByReuters: Hedge funds to fall by 35 per cent
Global assets of hedge funds may drop to $1.2 trillion by the end of the first quarter, down 35 percent…
ByIce, Ice, Baby
What’s cool is hot and what cold is even hotter, according to the press release which just landed in Hedgehog’s…
ByUpper Crust or Stale Loafers?
Have private bankers become a pointless relic or do they still offer a uniquely useful service for wealthy clients, asks…
ByFreehold Willie
Property fund manager Willie Gething is keeping his head while all about him are losing their houses — and his…
ByMorally Spent
For the last decade, the pursuit of money has been seen as a moral good by the world’s financial classes.…
ByArt pays
When companies are as far in the hole as banks, selling an art collection can’t raise enough cash to service…
ByUs and them
The UK MPs were pathetic, like a bunch of prefects who could no longer employ the stocks or flog the…
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