Hints and tips:
...O’Neal is just another conman. But the nature of his grift — his mimicry — inspires the FBI to press-gang him. He will join the Panthers on their behalf, become the COINTELPRO eyes on “Chairman Fred”....
...Winder recreates the mood of 1934, while providing a sort of triple biography of cricketer Hedley Verity, tennis player Fred Perry and golfer Henry Cotton....
...There might be hope yet for Fred Goodwin....
...But when Stan O’Neal destroyed Merrill Lynch, Fred Goodwin blew up RBS, Joe Cassano obliterated AIG, and Dick Fuld led Lehmans to bankruptcy, it was taxpayers who had to fork out hundreds of billions to...
...“Fred was an inspiration [and] the place was fantastic. He didn’t teach me in the practical sense about business but it was an insight into the way things worked....
...He follows the likes of Citi’s Chuck Prince and Merrill Lynch’s Stan O’Neal out their respective doors. Luckily for Fred Goodwin et al, this fashion is unlikely to catch on in Britain....
...Chuck Prince of Citigroup, Stan O’Neal of Merrill Lynch, Jimmy Cayne of Bear Stearns and UBS’s Marcel Ospel have all lost their jobs as a result of their banks’ exposure to the worst crisis in several generations...
...Barclays would likely be the happy owner of a Dutch arm were it not for one Sir Fred Goodwin. Step forward Mr Dimon....
...Compare the $48m earned last year by Stan O’Neal of Merrill Lynch. The gap is narrowing....
...The final member of the negotiating triad is the CBS Sports President, Neal Pilson....
...“We’ve begged Fred Goodwin [the bank’s chief executive],” says Bermingham. “’For God’s sake get off the fence!’”...
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