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Things worth reading: 10th November 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must read: Monetary Policy before, during and after the financial crisis, Speech by Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB Top bankers could face veto, says head of Financial Services Authority (Guardian) FSA to veto 'unethical' bankers from jobs (Times) FSA threatens jail in City…

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Things worth reading: 10th November 2009

Things we're reading today include … Today's must read: Monetary Policy before, during and after the financial crisis, Speech by Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB Top bankers could face veto, says head of Financial Services Authority (Guardian) FSA to veto 'unethical' bankers from jobs (Times) FSA threatens jail in City…

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America is bleeding

A lot of American sites are looking at the issues of unemployment right now. For example, there's some fascinating charts from Nathan at Flowing Data which show the impact across the nation, with US unemployment shooting up by four percentage points from 5.8% to 9.8% between 2008 and 2009 (doubleclick to enlarge):  Bearing in mind…

US unemployment

America is bleeding

A lot of American sites are looking at the issues of unemployment right now. For example, there's some fascinating charts from Nathan at Flowing Data which show the impact across the nation, with US unemployment shooting up by four percentage points from 5.8% to 9.8% between 2008 and 2009 (doubleclick to enlarge):  Bearing in mind…

US unemployment

Update from First Direct’s CEO on their social experiment

Matt Colebrook, First Direct's Chief Executive, has just written his initial observations about their social media experiment.  Interesting words: “It’s now over four weeks since we launched our pioneering ‘live’ site and we’ve been overwhelmed with how it’s been received, over 2000 comments to date on a wide variety of topics. “We’ve also seen a…

Things worth reading: 2nd November 2009

Things we're reading today include … UK Banks Break-up Banks face a week of reckoning (Independent)Darling & Kroes: Our banks’ future in their hands (Independent)Alistair Darling to break up RBS and Lloyds as he banks on reform (Times)Alistair Darling to outline plans to spend £30 billion buying bank shares (Telegraph)Royal Bank of Scotland to be 84%…

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Things worth reading: 2nd November 2009

Things we're reading today include … UK Banks Break-up Banks face a week of reckoning (Independent)Darling & Kroes: Our banks’ future in their hands (Independent)Alistair Darling to break up RBS and Lloyds as he banks on reform (Times)Alistair Darling to outline plans to spend £30 billion buying bank shares (Telegraph)Royal Bank of Scotland to be 84%…

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Things worth reading: 2nd November 2009

Things we're reading today include … UK Banks Break-up Banks face a week of reckoning (Independent)Darling & Kroes: Our banks’ future in their hands (Independent)Alistair Darling to break up RBS and Lloyds as he banks on reform (Times)Alistair Darling to outline plans to spend £30 billion buying bank shares (Telegraph)Royal Bank of Scotland to be 84%…

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Things worth reading: 2nd November 2009

Things we're reading today include … UK Banks Break-up Banks face a week of reckoning (Independent)Darling & Kroes: Our banks’ future in their hands (Independent)Alistair Darling to break up RBS and Lloyds as he banks on reform (Times)Alistair Darling to outline plans to spend £30 billion buying bank shares (Telegraph)Royal Bank of Scotland to be 84%…

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Money and Sex: the Twin Engines of Life

I’ve often used the relationship between money and sex as a clear allegory for how important finance and financial services is to our lives.  Now we have a real proof point from last week’s Sunday Times (see towards end of page, and this is an abbreviated version): Monkeys wise up and get the hang of…