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...He merely thought that the Labour chancellor Hugh Dalton’s 2.5 per cent fixed interest gilts were a swindle when inflation was running at more than 4 per cent....
...You know, like, 1967, gentlemen like AQ Mowbray declares the supermarkets the sign of the greatest swindle since Eve took the apple from the Serpent....
...john.thornhill@ft.com...
...“It’s not a big leap from ‘Trust no one’ to ‘swindle everyone.’,” Manjoo concludes....
...In other words, the SFO needs to show the most senior executives were in on the swindle....
...Some elements of the swindle, recorded by a whistleblower wearing a wiretap, read like a Quentin Tarantino movie....
...It is a Hogarth cartoon, or William Hazlitt’s 1816 description of John Bull (the portly English analogue to Uncle Sam) as a man who is “fond of having his own way, till you let him have it”....
...“We hope justice will be served and that those responsible for this swindle will be detained,” said Diosdado Cabello, the ruling Socialist Party’s second-in-command, Reuters reported....
...john.plender@ft.com...
...Sir, As John Kay correctly notes, the legislation allowing limited liability companies was passed in Marx’s lifetime (“Capitalism is the wrong target – but we can refine it”, January 11)....
...The board meeting, held at the offices of Slaughter & May, Liverpool’s solicitors, was attended by John W Henry, principal owner of NESV, whose assets include baseball’s Boston Red Sox....
...John W Henry, owner of NESV, said he was “proud” and “humbled” to be the owner of one of England’s most successful clubs....
...John Elliott is a former FT South Asia Correspondent (1983-88) and now writes from India...
...John Roberts, a sales manager with the broker European Fine Wines Limited, says: “There’s an awful lot of fear out there at the moment. These incidents bring a lot of worries about the market.”...
...Michael Downer, 71, was jailed for five years; John Clifford Williams, 65, for two and a half; John Mervyn Jones, 62, for six; and Malcolm Brown, 69, for four years and nine months....
...History tells us that bubbles spawn swindles. After the biggest credit bubble of all time, we now may have the biggest swindle of all time....
..., John Mitchell has a weather-beaten mind....
...john.gapper@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/gapper...
...Along with the destruction of the Bank, Jackson hoped to rid the republic of what he insisted was the great paper currency swindle....
...But even more complicated swindles are nothing new....
...Dog racing, simply put, is a swindle. There’s no other word for it. Never in my life have I participated in anything so saturated with false promise....
...; and of course Billy will, just like John “Rotten” Lydon, ultimately accept a spot on I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here!...
...For John McCain, victory in Saturday’s Republican primary in South Carolina would exorcise the ghosts of the bitterest moment in his political career....
...In March, Channel 4 screened The Great Global Warming Swindle, which robustly contested the views of the scientific majority, claiming that those who opposed the consensus were under pressure to remain silent...
...FT columnist John Gapper, writing for New York magazine, highlights some of the dissenting voices....
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