1. The Treasury hedge fund

HM Treasury today becomes perhaps the biggest hedge fund in the UK: it is investing £25.5bn in Royal Bank of Scotland shares and £5.7bn in Lloyds shares, financed almost exclusively by borrowing. It's probably quite good business. If we're past...

02/11/2009 | 579 Hits | Read more...

2. Tories bash the rich

George Osborne's speech to the Conservative Party conference contained a striking number of eye-catching proposals. What he appeared in the round to be proposing was a programme of national sacrifice to reduce debt and create a culture of saving....

06/10/2009 | 734 Hits | Read more...

3. The future is a merger

It has started, as it inevitably would: the process of companies trying to reduce their costs as we come out of recession by merging with businesses in their own industries - or what are known as in-market mergers. Today we've had the announcement...

07/09/2009 | 163 Hits | Read more...

4. The real G20 breakthrough

Just out of interest, which do you think is more important: limiting how much bankers are paid, or strengthening banks so that they are better able to absorb losses on loans and investments and less likely to run out of cash when creditors demand...

07/09/2009 | 151 Hits | Read more...

5. Two-Bin Inventory System

The Two-Bin Inventory System is an inventory systems that involves having two bins with inventory and replenishing/repurchasing inventory once the first bin has ran out of inventory.

16/05/2009 | 957 Hits