From the monthly archives:

November 2008

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Brown Sugar…

by Paul Lockstone on 24 November 2008

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Dazed and confused…

November 21, 2008

Today’s Daily Mail front page lead caught my eye.  Under the headline ‘Banks: Now it gets Ugly’ it says that “Alistair Darling is so exasperated by the ‘moral failure’ of banks to help small firms and families that he is poised to toughen the law.”  Apparently the particular target of the Chancellor’s ire is those [...]

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Cars

November 19, 2008

On one level, the current debate over the fate of the Big 3 Detroit car companies – and specifically whether the US Government should extend a further $25bn of public money to help the industry weather its own current financial crisis – puts me in mind of the “what have the Roman’s ever done for [...]

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Suspicious minds…

November 10, 2008

There is no situation so bad that can’t be made even worse with a “lavish staff blowout” as yesterday’s News of the World front page story about HBoS’s Annual Star Gala event, which took place in Edinburgh last week, and the Sunday Mail’s exclusive about the bank’s planned December event in Birmingham for 1,500 mortgage [...]

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Down down…

November 6, 2008

Is the Governor of the Bank of England sending a signal to the banks with today’s shock 1.5% reduction in interest rates?  This is the view of my colleague Susan Eastoe, Edelman’s Deputy CEO and Public Affairs guru who says that in dropping base rates to their lowest point since 1955 it looks like Mervyn [...]

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