Mark Deans, Moneycorp
Mark Deans, Dealing Manager at Moneycorp
22 February 2012
The terms of the bailout deal announced yesterday, which involve a permanent team of inspectors in Athens and external control of the country's cash, make Greece a wholly-owned subsidiary of Germany in all but name.
21 February 2012
Perhaps Greece can learn from the experience of over-achieving American toddlers. Its EU partners have locked the country in a secure nursery with armed guards, €130bn and a list of 25 words that it must master in order to reach its economic potential.
20 February 2012
The Sunday Times reports on an innovative money-generation scheme that is becoming increasingly popular with local authorities keen to separate ratepayers from their cash.
17 February 2012
Supermarket chain Tesco is bucking the economic trend by hiring night-shift staff in East Anglia. Well, it isn't exactly hiring them, it is looking for volunteers to work for "JSA + expenses".
16 February 2012
It's funny how, since Moody's started to swing its downgrade machine gun across Britain's credit rating, a triple-A is no longer so overwhelmingly crucial to the country's financial well-being.
15 February 2012
Austerity, as often discussed, means different things to different people. For Britain's parliament it means economising on the decoration of Westminster's interiors.
14 February 2012
Coming out at the same time as Rightmove's Happy At Home index was an announcement from Moody's which spread a different sort of misery.
13 February 2012
Prime Minister Lukas Papademos and his finance minister Evangelos Venizelos had given their all to persuade Greek MPs to support the latest round of austerity measures.
10 February 2012
Move into a smaller house and work beyond retirement age. It might sound like part of the latest Greek austerity package but in fact is the advice of the British prime minister's Behavioural Insight Team.
9 February 2012
England's second longest-serving football manager appears to have been forced out by the Football Association for daring to select the captain of his team.
8 February 2012
Police magazine tells the tale of a young Sussex policeperson on plainclothes urban patrol. Using the multitude of CCTV cameras around town the control room directed him to apprehend a man suspected of behaving suspiciously....
7 February 2012
There is angst in the glens following unofficial opinion from the big three agencies that an independent Scotland would not warrant an AAA credit rating.
6 February 2012
More than 5,000 British "claims-management companies" make a living from persuading motorists to claim for damages after trivial accidents.
3 February 2012
In the great tradition of discovering the blindingly obvious, researchers at three American universities have found that users of the social networking site Twitter don't have much of value to say.
2 February 2012
The Institute for Meteorology at the Free University in Berlin runs an "Adopt-a-Vortex" scheme whereby people can name a low- or high-pressure system for €299.
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