Augar

Augar notes how the one-stop-shop American model led, if often circuitously, to our current crisis.

Robert Teitelman: Big Bang, Now and Then Robert Teitelman 2011

Philip Augar in the Financial Times notes that this week represents the 25th anniversary of London's Big Bang.

Robert Teitelman: Big Bang, Now and Then Robert Teitelman 2011

The Americans, as Augar notes, worked harder, but standards of permissible behavior eroded.

Robert Teitelman: Big Bang, Now and Then Robert Teitelman 2011

For Augar, that depends on whether a "free-market" successor is constructed, something "entrenched interests in America and Britain would be well-advised to encourage if they wish to remain centre stage."

Putting Finance Capitalism "Back in Its Box" 2009

It's these type shenanigans that get Augar and others to call "the old model busted" and needing reform.

Putting Finance Capitalism "Back in Its Box" 2009

It was big enough for Augar to produce "a useful contribution .... about the biggest financial crisis for decades," a story of greed, excess, and fraud by an insider willing to take the gloss off a "busted model" and suggest something more workable in its place.

Putting Finance Capitalism "Back in Its Box" 2009

The Greed Merchants by Philip AugarIn his last book, "The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism," Augar, a former investment banker, showed how American financial giants gobbled up the City of London.

Snap Judgment: Books 2007

Augar says no, and lays out how many of the world's largest financial institutions are still rife with conflicts of interest and getting rich at the expense of the little guy.

Snap Judgment: Books 2007

Augar is a former City man with the rare ability to take the reader through the complexities of high finance.

Nick Cohen: Writing from London 2009

It was big enough for Augar to produce "a useful contribution …. about the biggest financial crisis for decades," a story of greed, excess, and fraud by an insider willing to take the gloss off a "busted model" and suggest something more workable in its place.

True Blue Liberal 2009