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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.