Finance
Miliband redirects Barclays rage to Cameron over PM’s inaction
Ed Miliband sought to refocus public anger over the Barclays Libor scandal toward David Cameron and George Osborne over their inaction and hypocrisy.
The evidence-free dogma of demutualisation
As the London Metal Exchange demutualises after 400 years, we must be alive to the systemic risks of demutualisation - a harbinger of financial cataclysm.
Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley: Labour’s gift that keeps on giving?
Cormac Hollingsworth reveals the enormous sums made from the nationalisation of Bradford and Bingley and Northern Rock, and asks what it's being used for.
Alec Baldwin, not Michael Douglas, will improve corporate ethics
Cormac Hollingsworth looks at the City's idols; for all that Wall Street is known in the real world, Glengarry Glen Ross is the real star piece.
The Bank of England is like a lifeguard who’s afraid of rubber rings
Cormac Hollingsworth asks what use the Bank of England is if it's afraid of one of the key tools in its arsenal
ECB bailing out British banks exposes coalition’s finance failure
Cormac Hollingsworth writes on the embarrassment for the chancellor that is the British banks RBS and Lloyds having to go to Europe for a bailout