Bill Black: The Economist Must Retract Its Racist Headline Immediately
The UK election results provoked the Economist to reveal its racist tendencies.
Read more...Category Archives: UK
UK Elections Today: Unpredictable, But Depressingly Little Room Between the Parties on Austerity
By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen While in this country somebody’s probably writing up an early analysis of the 2024 elections, for UK elections they do quick-strike campaigns only lasting a handful of weeks. And today voters cast their ballots in an election most observers agree will really get interesting […]
Read more...Dubious FX Broker CWM FX Claims Sports Celebrity Scalps, but Princess Anne Remains Unmolested
The CWM FX fraud bust, a murder, Princess Anne and some groping. It’s BAU in the world of sports sponsorship.
Read more...Bryan Cook in the Media: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (IX)
The Virgin Gold scam hits the press, along with London Capital and Bryan Cook
Read more...The Money Laundering Web: HSBC, Margaret Hodge, Sir Alan Duncan, Vitol…and Mossack Fonseca
Fallout from the HSBC session of the Public Accounts in which Mossack Fonseca’s name cropped up and Margaret Hodge administered a few tongue-lashings
Read more...Mapley Fights Back: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (VIII)
It’s high time I updated the APGMI part of the saga of Virgin Gold Mining Corporation. Here’s a round-up of the relevant parts of this sprawling series.
Read more...HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (1): Mossack Fonseca
HSBC’s top brass have “no idea” about Mossack Fonseca. Here’s a primer.
Read more...Bond Star Sir Roger Moore, Three Million Phantom Geese in China, and a New Zealand Financial Services Provider
Bond Star Sir Roger Moore, Three Million Phantom Geese in China, and a New Zealand Financial Services Provider
Read more...GXG: How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (VI)
GXG Markets expels dubious broker London Capital (NZ)
Read more...How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (IV)
The last piece in our series on Virgin Gold Mining Corporation, for the moment
Read more...How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (III)
Yet more twists in the tale of the giant pyramid fraud, Virgin Gold Mining Corporation: Plan “C” starts to come unravelled.
Read more...How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (II)
More shenanigans from Virgin Gold Mining Corporation and its little helpers.
Read more...How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (I)
First in a series of posts exploring Virgin Gold, an immense ($2Bn?) pyramid scheme with a messy aftermath
Read more...Is Power8, Sponsor of Everton FC, Fulham FC and RCD Espanyol, a Giant Ponzi?
Yves here. Richard Smith is on the trail of what looks to be his biggest international scam find ever, orders of magnitude larger than the usual below the radar single to low double digit million dollar/pound/euro operation that he has ferreted out in the past. And mind you, even though he focuses on the dubious looking inter-corporate relationships and the often evident lack of normal investors protections and business substance, these companies sell hope and glamour to typically credulous retail investors who lose their money and have no recourse.
Read more...Revolt Starting in UK Over Private Equity Secrecy
Mirabile dictu, is a revolution against private equity secrecy starting on the other side of the pond, meaning in of all places, finance-dominated England?
Read more...