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SKETCH: If the website is anything to go by, BBC News has nothing to say.

Peston….possibly alive, not sure Is there anyone with a pulse at the BBCNews website? The sloppy, incompetent, tentative […]

John Ward July 24, 2010 404, BBC website., Ian Hislop, Jeremy Clarkson., Jeremy Paxman., Mark Thompson, mouthpiece, Robert Peston

CHINA: SLOG’S INTERNAL SUB-PRIME FEARS CONFIRMED

Beijing leadership….serious sub-prime problem The Bloomberg site this afternoon (GMT) confirmed The Slog’s fears – expressed here in […]

John Ward July 23, 2010 Chinabanks have sub-prime debt, Liu Mingking, sub-prime debt.

EUROBANK STRESS TEST – EVERYONE PASSED!

“Did they really? Well,bless me!” I see word reached Robert Peston at the Beeb a while back (16:13 […]

John Ward July 23, 2010 EU descending into farce, eurotest, left out sov debt two weeks ago.

BREAKING….DISMAY AS EUROBANK STRESS TEST LEAKS SHOW EU ‘NOT COUNTING MOST SOVEREIGN DEBT LIABILITIES’

More cover-up and fudge as the ECB’s ‘stress test’ stresses out the markets….after they’ve closed. With just 70 […]

John Ward July 23, 2010 Bloomberg, Breaking...leaks of stress-tests, Brown Brothers Harriman., Markets dismayed, most sovereign debt ignored

UK ECONOMIC GROWTH OF 1.6%: Much ado about nothing.

Today’s UK growth statistics show no sign of useful recovery at all. The figures released by the UK […]

John Ward July 23, 2010 Breaking....UK GDP growth misleading, FTSE 100, much ado about nothing., Sterling rise, trade balance

A secretive EU is no use to open markets

Today’s stress tests are doomed before they appear. One of the ironies that has always struck more than […]

John Ward July 23, 2010 Breaking....EU stress-tests, Chris Whalen, credibility, no standardisation, Reuters

What do banks and governmnts have in common?

Somebody emailed me this question yesterday -meaning, aside from being dependent on each other, what have they got […]

John Ward July 22, 2010 Banks, governments, six things in common.

Deutschland uber und under alle Leute.

A CHEATING couple who fell from an apartment window during a secret sex session suffered broken bones and […]

John Ward July 22, 2010 Germany, Lubeck, Sex fall

EUROZONE: ECONOMIC SPIN & FINANCIAL FRAUD

The eurozone output data and stress tests do not bear examination. We have some some rises in European […]

John Ward July 22, 2010 Breaking...EU economic data spin, data for mugs, markets cynical., Schauble, stress test fraud, Trichet

US ECONOMIC POLICY IS AS MUDDLED AS ITS FOREIGN POLICY

Obama…full of it Economic and fiscal signals from the US are not so much mixed as liquidised. Although […]

John Ward July 22, 2010 Ben Bernanke, confusion, no substance, Obama, US mixed economc signals

ANALYSIS: LibDem MP attitudes harden as new poll shows vote collapse.

“Oh, f……” Grim silence on the LibDem benches as support collapses to 13%. Liberal Democrat unrest among Party […]

John Ward July 22, 2010 David Laws, libdems, Nick Clegg, PMQ gaffes., Simon Hughes, Vince Cable

PROPERTY BUST: The inevitable is upon us.

There’ve been some good Financial Times pieces on commercial property this year….but the FT will lose hits linked […]

John Ward July 22, 2010 Commercial property bubble, Jeremy Warner, paywalls, Rupert Murdoch

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