Rupert Murdoch not only attended his mother’s 100th birthday party on Sunday 8 February, he this year celebrated 25 years since launching Sky television, 40 years since buying the News of the World and will clock up 40 years of owning The Sun later in 2009. If anyone can survive a recession it surely is him.
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A reality television show based on hedge funds looks as mis-timed as all those property programmes that are beyond their show-by dates. But is BBC2’s Million Dollar Traders intended to make us envy hedge dealers or hate them?
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If you say loud enough that a company is going bust it very likely will. Should commentators thus show restraint?
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