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Jim Cramer vs Jon Stewart, Round Three and KO

In what began a week ago as an attack on CNBC's Business News coverage and escalated into a head-to-head battle between CNBC's Stock Market pundit Jim Cramer and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart, came to what seemed to be a conclusion on Thursday night as Cramer made a personal appearance on Stewart's Daily Show. The full…

Jim Cramer vs Jon Stewart, Round Two

There's nothing like being an online pundit, yours truly included, because your views are on record and, if you call the future and get it wrong, boy, are you dead meat. Jim Cramer knows this when he cried "do not take your money out of Bear Stearns" last March, just days before the broker was…

HSBC’s bouncing share price

I'm on travels again and in Hong Kong this week.  That's fine although it was disappointing to wake up to the South China Morning Post screaming headline: "HSBC hit by worst fall for two decades". Oh yes, that really cheered me up. It's all to do with the HSBC £12.5 billion ($17 billion) rights issue…

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HSBC’s bouncing share price

I'm on travels again and in Hong Kong this week.  That's fine although it was disappointing to wake up to the South China Morning Post screaming headline: "HSBC hit by worst fall for two decades". Oh yes, that really cheered me up. It's all to do with the HSBC £12.5 billion ($17 billion) rights issue…

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A great time for words

It’s been a great week for men of words in the banking system to come clean and tell their stories of mistakes and errors. It started with Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, stating that: “The idea of a self regulating market seems quaint if not outright ludicrous in the wake of…

A great time for words

It’s been a great week for men of words in the banking system to come clean and tell their stories of mistakes and errors. It started with Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, stating that: “The idea of a self regulating market seems quaint if not outright ludicrous in the wake of…

A great time for words

It’s been a great week for men of words in the banking system to come clean and tell their stories of mistakes and errors. It started with Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton, stating that: “The idea of a self regulating market seems quaint if not outright ludicrous in the wake of…

CNBC taken to the cleaners

Jon Stewart's Daily Show on Comedy Central rips CNBC Business News to pieces: Some great clips and puts this all in context.  Checkout 3 minutes onwards if you want to see this whole crisis put into perspective. Thanks to Jeffry at the Financial Brand for the heads-up.

Best cartoon of The Week

The Week is a great little magazine, summarising all the stories of the week.  Each magazine has a cartoon front page picture and this week's is so good, I had to post it here:  'Nuff said.

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Beer and Derivatives … a perfect combo!

Another attempt to explain the financial crisis. The last ones were with birds and cows.  This time it's beer-bellied drunks! John owns a bar and, in order to increase sales, decides to allow the most loyal customers – who are mainly unemployed drunks – to drink now but pay later. He keeps track of the…

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