My Friend the Ponzi Schemer
Jonathan Chambers on his former schoolmate turned financial shyster David Smith, currently facing fraud charges in the Caribbean WHY DID…
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All the World's a Stage
Want to get plugged in to the most exciting and exclusive network of power players in the world? Better have…
ByUpdated: Darling's Nasty Surprise
The Pre-Budget Report’s hidden measures will hurt Britain, not help it, as the Chancellor takes aim at the bonuses of…
ByTime Flies When You’re Hedging Funds
Only yesterday they were the pariahs of the business world, but hedgies are bouncing back quickly and are eager to…
ByThe Minsky Moment
The fight to stop Great Depression 2 is far from over. In 2008, we saw the Keynesian Stimulus Cure and…
ByNotes from the Spear’s/Speechly Bircham seminar
Spear’s and private client law specialists Speechly Bircham LLP held a seminar on 15 October where some of Speechly’s top…
ByMervyn King's Speech
In a speech delivered last night in Scotland, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, stressed his feeling…
BySmith to Keynes: Be Quiet!
This is the text of Alasdair Macleod’s Adam Smith lecture, delivered last week at Boodles: Alasdair takes aim at the…
ByLock up Your Houses!
Ross Clark on the devious yet relatively simple means by which fraudsters can, figuratively speaking, make off with your real…
ByJohn Redwood on the Economic Crisis
Read John Redwood’s summary of the Spear’s Talk he gave at the Henley Literary Festival on Sunday, October 4 “For…
BySplitting the Difference
Divorce law relating to financial settlements has long ceased to be a laughing matter. That is because UK law is…
ByAfterlives
The sad truth is that most people in the City do not have a Plan B, either through lack of…
ByWobbly-W and Wobbledy-Gook
The world economy is not on an incipient roll as the politicians and central bankers would have you believe; it’s…
ByThe Spooks Spooked
Nigel West on the growing — and embarrassingly public — rift between the CIA and the US government WHILE NATO…
ByA Conversation That Changed My Life
Our prison system is failing. Long-time observer Peter Chadlington lays out a programme for reform that was born when he…
ByLunatic Express!
Less than a year after the global economy derailed, the big-bonus gravy train is not only back on the rails…
ByWhere Everybody Knows Your Name
Could firms like the newly formed Vestra be the nicer, kinder and more personalised face of post-recession wealth management, asks…
ByThe Odd Couple
A boutique wealth-management firm that combines the impeccable address book of Ali Spencer-Churchill, the undisputed financial smarts of Alan Miller…
ByIt’s Going to the Dogs…
Jim Mellon, 52, author, marathon runner, guitar player and songwriter, is best known as one of the most successful businessmen…
ByGoldman Sucks
Or does it? Slagging off the world’s most powerful bank is a popular pastime these days — but how much…
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