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Lehman Brothers: has the sector learned anything?

By ⋅ September 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

September 15th marks one year since Lehman Brothers – an investment bank that I worked for in the 1990s – was allowed to crash and burn. What, if anything, has the financial sector learned since then? Well, if President Obama’s opinions are anything to go by it’s not much.  Today he told an audience in downtown [...]

Name that party

By ⋅ February 11, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

I’ve been thinking about the name for the new political party that must/ will/ might overthrow the government in a few days and was wondering if you have any suggestions?

Toxic tips from D’Oh School of Economics

By ⋅ October 3, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Originally published as a business column in The Irish Times, October 3, 2008 BREAKING NEWS: Homer Simpson has been operating the controls of the international financial system for the last several years. Mr Simpson, normally the animated nuclear safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Plant, is known to spend much of his time eating doughnuts, [...]

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