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Bernard Madoff’s unhappy days – Cartoon

Well, it’s been an impressive year for big (and small) business as everything winds down for the festive season/or a week/or a month/or forever.*

Gloomy prognostications available here from the FTs Alphaville, here from Capitalists at Work and all over the place in your average UK street. The story of Bernard (call me Bernie) Madoff has provided some small entertainment for those of us who enjoy our humour black and the cartoon above for Channel 4 News is in this spirit. Published at Channel 4 News

* Delete as appropriate for your own personal economic situuation

A short lesson in irony

From Adrian Monck

Woolworths is doomed

Via Channel 4 News. It is the the last of the penny sweets.
We shall become a nation of charity shops in the new year.

Cartoon: Festive Jack Straw – Minister for Justice

Jack Straw, Cartoon caricature, UK Politics, Minister for Justice, Community payback, © Matt Buck Hack Cartoons

Community payback lives here. When times are hard, governments like to make sure that people see evil-doers are being punished.

The Guardian’s Charlie Brooker has a line or two on it all. His thoughts on alternative bib names struck a chord with me as I was asked kindly to remove the phrase – Official Scrote- from the back of a bib in this drawing.

Paying for the party

Peston on paying for the party.

Politician states the obvious about bankers – archive cartoon

Catching up with the public mood. The cartoon is reposted from September 2008 and is done so in the spirit of the highly successful fraudster Bernard (Bernie) Madoff who’s pyramid scheme appears to have embarrassed very many of the world’s wisest institutional investors.

Global financial crisis, bank crisis cartoon, Bernard Madoff cartoon caricature, Lehman Bros, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve Bank, Barack Obama, general Motors, Ford, Chrysler George W Bush, Hank Paulson and Gordon Brown. Cartoon drawing made by Matt Buck hack Cartoons. Originally published by Tribune magazine in the UK. Copyright and all image rights Matt Buck Hack Cartoons

More on Mr Madoff’s pyramid scheme

Five famous fraudsters from Channel 4 News

Iraqi journalists are citizens too – cartoon

Even when they aren’t behaving politely.

This is from March of this year
 Matt Buck hack animated political cartoon, Iraq, Iraq war, George W Bush
Click the picture for the animation on five years since the invasion of Iraq – or click here.

Updated: 15th December 2008 – 8am

My colleague at Channel 4 revisits a recent film – Wag the Dog – with great success..

Satire and the stars

The result of The Guardian-Elton John libel case.

Well done the judge, the defence and Marina Hyde.

$50bn fraud suspected

Here and here with the ‘business’ in question being here

Updated: 14th Decemeber 11pm
The Spanish Bank Santander, who have purchased large parts of the ‘British’ banking industry are exposed to losses from Mr Madoff’s business.

Career in the motor industry?

General Motors, Chrysler and Ford face bankruptcy in the US without a bail out from the government. Here, Vauxhall is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors.

Peston of the BBC

Updated: 2pm 12th December
From Bloomberg

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