Also had a villain, to hear Vicky Ward tell it in her gossipy book The Devil’s Casino. His name was Joseph Gregory, and he tricked a chum and respected Lehman leader, Christopher Pettit, she is saying. The episode in 1996 “is still called the Ides of March by senior Lehman middle management ” as it [...]

THE American Second World War and the British Second World War were very different experiences. Before their joint invasion of continental Europe in June 1944 the two countries were largely engaged in separate theatres. Even after D-Day the United States continued to fight on two fronts. Their first and last enemy was the Empire of [...]

The North American 2nd World War and the English 2nd World War were completely different experiences. Before their joint invasion of continental Europe in June 1944 the 2 states were mostly engaged in separate theatres. Even after D-Day the US continued to battle on 2 fronts. Their first and last enemy was the Empire of [...]

Ever since Black Dogs, I have found the books where McEwan tackles Themes Of Recent Significance especially his Iraq demonstration novel, Sat. his most forced and febrile.
The lead figure in query is Michael Beard, Nobel Prize winner for the Beard-Einstein Conflation, a bit of genius that has authorized his career to coast.
Beard is a scumbag, [...]

The global monetary crisis of 2008, which economic gurus guess could end up in a few trillion greenbacks of losses and that has already cost American taxpayers billions of bucks in government bailouts, was caused not by war or recession but by a silly, synthetic cash machine, built on defective mathematical models that most fiscal [...]

The town of Topeka the capital of Kansas has renamed itself ‘Google’ for the month of March 2010, expecting to draw the organization’s’s notice so it is going to be selected for fibre optics trials that Google has asserted it will start shortly.
This event hadn’t, naturally, occurred when New Yorker business writer Ken Auletta finished [...]

These books have essentially been by folks who were either part of the monetary system that was brought down or writers writing about it. But these folk were all insiders writing about something they used to be a part of.
George Soros, the hedge fund chief turned humanitarian, has a speculation of reflexivity, which states that [...]

A previous member of MI6 from north London is due to appear in court charged with breaking the Official Techniques Act by exposing spying systems. Daniel Houghton, twenty-five, is charged with divulging a number of electronic files with articles about intelligence gathering strategies. Also he is charged with pinching MI5 files containing similar info at [...]