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In one of the most egregious examples of issue hijacking* we’ve ever seen, a report from Cranfield School of Management claims that the economy wouldn’t be in such a terrible condition if more women sat on the boards of banks, and recommends that more women should be given senior positions on the banks that have […]

Gordon Brown’s rescue plan for the banking industry seems to have been used as a blueprint for similar bailouts across Europe and even in the US, and for now it seems like the stock markets are responding positively with record gains on most of the major markets. So everything’s peachy and happy days are here […]

The US government managed to push through its $700 billion banking industry bailout plan on the second attempt but if anybody thought this was going to be the quick fix needed to nudge the global economy back on track, it looks like they wore sorely mistaken. The Guardian reports that Wall Street’s big banks are […]

The Guardian has a fairly good summary of the findings of Sir James Crosby’s report into the UK housing market. Although this preliminary report does not make specific recommendations, it does talk about the kind of options which are available to the government if it wants to get the housing market moving again. Most of […]