Watching Blood Diamond makes the heart beat fast, fills the eyes with sadness, anger and hope, and pushes brain’s activity to the max. One thousand questions come in and out, the most reccurent one being: what’s a blood diamond’s worth ? The first scene of Edward Zwick’s Blood Diamond is crystal clear : the massacres […]
The European Union Catches The Banks Holding Hands
Where’s Bob Diamond Now? J Iddhis Bing December 6, 2013 Early in the summer of 2012, Bob Diamond was an American banker with a talent for making numbers say what he wanted them to say. He was sitting in the catbird seat at Barclays Bank UK where he’d made $100 million over the previous six […]
Diamond Resigns and LIBOR Hearings Begin
Day 2 of the Barclays Meltdown: Diamond resigns J Iddhis Bing. London July 4 In a dizzying series of fast-paced events in the City, London’s financial hub, Barclay’s Chairman, Marcus Agius, has been re-instated and Bob Diamond, the American-born CEO, has resigned. The highly unusual switch occurred when it became apparent that […]
Lebanon Unveils World’s Largest Hummus Plate in Ongoing Feud
As many as 300 Lebanese chefs gathered yesterday in Beirut to make the largest ever plate of hummus in an attempt to claim the reigns in ownership of the popular chick pea dip. The new world record is part of an ongoing campaign in Lebanon to reaffirm the country’s claim to a number of dishes […]