Broad Oak Magazine

A clever piece by " Squander Two ", apparently going viral, about a confrontation with the poseur and unfocused protorevolutionary...

I listend to Radio 4's Any Questions? last Saturday and a question about bankers' bonuses reared its lovely head. And then the pund...

All these bankers and investment houses jumping up and down on the bed until (inevitably it seems, one day) the springs break... where do th...

The UK has an unfortunate reputation for clasping vipers to its bosom, from Karl Marx to modern religious terrorists. But some might say the...

Congressman Michael E. Capuano does his job today, flaying the banks (htp: Jesse). I tried to email congratulations to him, but I haven'...

A piece by the columnist and Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/opinion/02krugman.html?_r=1&e...

On 26th June I looked at the progress of the FTSE since around 1984 and thought that the next low would be no worse than c. 4,500. Here'...

Following comments on the last post, I see the feeling that scores should be settled is spreading - see Denninger and a threatening post to ...

Hilarious new animation in which the daring but accident-prone duo attempt to undo the damage caused by an idiot who sold off half of Britai...

Conservative leader David Cameron is making noises about prosecuting crooked bankers. Nice to see he's getting with my program. Also in ...

On Financial Sense , F. William Engdahl speculates that asset-backed securities ("toxic waste" mortgage packages) were sold to Eur...

US nonfinancial debt ( second quarter 2008 ) is $32.4 trillion dollars. This pie chart gives a breakdown of the debt by type. US GDP in 2006...

Hunter in the Daily Kos (HTP: my brother) says that the $700 billion rescue plan has no relation to the (much smaller) likely amount of mor...

Actually, I hope all the top bankers and star traders keep their huge bonuses (one year's worth of which would keep people like us for l...