Geoff White
Is it possible to create a digital identity based on trust?
If we could instantly assess a person’s trustworthiness, it would make money redundant. But things become tricky when we try to avoid using our legal identity.
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Russell Brand: YouTube suspends star’s ability to make money from adverts
The video sharing platform Youtube has suspended Russell Brand’s ability to make money from adverts on his channels – saying he had violated their “creator responsibility policy” after serious allegations made against him.
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Geoff White
Hull city council considering bitcoin-like currency
Hull’s decision to launch its own cyber-currency, called Hullcoins, may sound like an April fool’s joke, but it shows the kind of traction virtual currencies are gaining in the real world.
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Faisal Islam
Signal failure at the Transport Department
“Right now we don’t even know who will be running the west coast mainline trains in two months time, but today more questions about who is to blame…”
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Alex Thomson
Barajas: overlit, overheated, underused, underwhelming
Barajas Airport itself, one giant folly to Euro-borrowing on a grand scale against a dream that has never come true. Quite probably never could.
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Faisal Islam
Politicians flounder amid gathering economic storm
Euro crisis, poor jobs figures, massive national strikes, on top of high inflation squeezing living standards – Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports on the political response to the economic bad weather.
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North Korea: nothing to envy
You may have missed the Dear Leader’s birthday earlier this week. They celebrated with synchronised swimmers performing to martial music and a festival of the kimjongilia, the flower named after North Korea’s “peerlessly brilliant commander”. On the day North Koreans were singing happy birthday to Kim Jong Il, I was chairing a discussion at the…
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Faisal Islam
France and Germany could bail Greece out
Channel 4 News’s economics correspondent Faisal Islam believes Germany and France are ready to bail Greece out of its financial crisis.
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Faisal Islam
QE is halted. All hail QT – The Mervyn and George Show
Channel 4 News’s economic correspondent Faisal Islam imagines how quantitative tightening might take place.
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Faisal Islam
Covert bank loans revealed
Channel 4 News Economics correspondent Faisal Islam examines the news that the Bank of England loand more than £60bn to RBS and HBoS in secret.
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Jon Snow
Gritting teeth over dentistry costs
Jon Snow blogs on the costs of modern dentistry costs. You think his ties are expensive? Read on…
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Faisal Islam
The American economy grows again
Channel 4 News reporter Faisal Islam examines America’s economic figures.
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Jon Snow
Why the banks have stopped lending
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow insists there are no signs of increaed credit being made available in Europe despite the campaigns by politicians and senior economists.
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Faisal Islam
Congratulations! How the warming housing market is underpinned by your taxes.
House prices are back at 2008 levels. On average the value of our castles are now back where they were before the Lehman calamity. So is it hooray! three cheers! and high fives all around?
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Faisal Islam
Where now for the Tory defenders of the City?
About two years ago I met one of the top British bankers and asked for an opinion on Brown/Darling vs Cameron/Osborne. I was shocked to hear his scepticism about the Tory business policy versus the government. To be clear, this was Brown at his absolute peak, still ahead in the polls, just before Northern Rock…