Staying out of the Anglo / American housing market for the next 30 months will be seriously good for your health / wealth 2009/11/02
Prince Andrew hasn't worked a day in his life and defends the bankers. Predator or producer? Your call. 2009/10/25
The RE is in post production on their feature film. A massive expose into what's really happened to the global economy. Out March 2010 2009/10/25
Are going to interview Britain’s "Buy to let king" Fergus Wilson for this week’s talk show… 2009/10/13
The team have just arrived back after shooting our debut feature length documentary. It will provide a ten year forecast - watch this space. 2009/08/25
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the US has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
“In the US and many other countries, the too-big-to-fail banks have become even bigger,” Stiglitz said in an interview overnight in Paris. “The problems are worse than they were in 2007 before the crisis.”
The former prime minister Tony Blair has received millions of pounds through an unusual mixture of commercial, charitable and religious income streams. Since he stepped down from office in 2007, his financial affairs have been described by observers as “Byzantine” and “opaque”. The Guardian is now launching an online competition offering a prize to the person who can shine the brightest light on those financial structures.
Blair has a commercial consultancy, called Tony Blair Associates, plus jobs advising a US bank and a Swiss insurer. He has a multimillion pound book deal. He also has a charity, the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative, and another called the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. But much of the income, which includes charitable donations from other sources, has been funnelled through a structure called Windrush Ventures No 3 Limited Partnership. Our contest asks: what is Windrush?