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Will we be safer with the investment bankers in charge?
Look at the write downs for Barclays and RBS: $22.9bn and $26.5bn respectively. Those were mainly losses on toxic assets accumulated by Barclays Capital and ABN Amro, the investment banking divisions of the two British banks. Does that show admirable risk management?
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 12:52 pm
Jure Robic, world’s toughest, craziest athlete, dies
Sad news over the weekend of the death of an insane man you probably haven’t heard of but who was, by many accounts, the world’s greatest endurance athlete.
Jure Robic was a Slovenian soldier turned long distance cyclist. In 2004, during the Ride Across America, a notorious, 3,000-mile, coast-to-coast race Robic won a record five times, [...]
By Simon Usborne | Notebook, Sport | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 12:30 pm
Establishment opinion bets on Osborne
So much is riding on the economy – not just all those jobs and mortgages but political careers too!
Now that Labour seems set to row back from even the deficit reduction plans framed by Alistair Darling – who seems rightly irritated by the incipient U-turn being openly canvassed by Ed Balls – everything [...]
By Sean O'Grady | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 12:28 pm
The IMF is not infallible
The IMF forecast UK growth of 1.6 per cent in 2008 and 2009. What we got was a contraction of 2.9 per cent in 2008 and 3.7 in 2009.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 28 September 2010 at 11:17 am
University – Second time lucky
Last time I tried, I succeeded, but regrettably spent more time starving myself half to death wrapped in a dressing gown, shivering in my bedroom than enjoying what were supposed to be the best years of my life. I remember during the first week of university, all of my flatmates went out every night of [...]
By Ilona Burton | Notebook | Monday, 27 September 2010 at 8:36 pm
Few chances go a-begging at Homeless World Cup
Cup finals are notoriously cagey affairs with players keen to avoid mistakes in a match which could well define their career. That trend was bucked at the weekend by the Brazilian men and women who made it a double triumph for the hosts in the 8th annual Homeless World Cup.
It was an all-South American affair [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | Sport | Monday, 27 September 2010 at 8:32 pm
Nadal v Federer: Perhaps art can determine who’s the best…
Nadal v Federer – who’s the best? Federer has more titles but Nadal won three of this year’s majors. Federer is lauded as the greatest of all time but he can’t beat Nadal. It would seem that deciding on a winner is just about impossible. If only there was a fair and unequivocally accurate way [...]
By Simon Rice | Sport | Monday, 27 September 2010 at 5:23 pm
The red peril facing Britain
For some sections of our wonderful media, those communists are back. And they’re under our very beds!
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Monday, 27 September 2010 at 5:05 pm
Less Twenty20 cricket? Fine by me
They’re talking about cutting back on the number of Twenty20 cricket fixtures next season. I can’t say I’m unhappy about this.
Twenty20 is the version of cricket I like the least. Which I guess is slightly odd, because, as a latecomer to the game, and therefore in no position to label myself a traditionalist, I think [...]
New Labour is dead. Again.
It keeps dying, and then coming back. This thing is as relentless as The Terminator.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Monday, 27 September 2010 at 3:54 pm
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