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Submitted by Cityboy on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 13:21.
As we approach the end of the decade journalists across the world are once again busy writing lists of those significant people, events or innovations that defined the previous ten years. It therefore seems appropriate for me, someone who is considered a City scoundrel by many, to write a top ten list of the financial rogues of the ‘Noughties’ - especially as this last decade has produced more well-known rascals than any other in living memory. Perhaps this reflects a decline in morality and an increase in greed or maybe it resulted from the booms and busts that characterised the last decade. Below is my personal list of those colourful characters whose very public comeuppance reminded us that even the rich and powerful don’t always get away with it!
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Submitted by Cityboy on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 17:00.
 There was a time when the City was the sole preserve of chinless wonders. These ex-Etonians would cavort around the Square Mile in pin-stripe suits and bowler hats meeting chaps they’d fagged for and chatting about cricket. The average working day would begin at 9.30, involve a three hour boozy lunch at ‘the club’ and end at around 4.30pm. It was a tight-knit club of clipped vowels and polite manners where a gentlemen’s word was his bond. Last week yet another nail was hammered into that arcane world as Cazenove, by far the poshest City firm and ‘stockbroker to the Queen’, agreed to be taken over by the American behemoth JP Morgan.
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Submitted by Cityboy on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 23:11.
 A recent article in the FT stated that ‘cocaine use remains rife among City workers in spite of rising unemployment and lower wages.’ Well, an experience I had last week suggested they might be on to something though it appears the quality of what Cityboys are ingesting ain’t what it used to be ….
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Submitted by Cityboy on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 15:10.
 Well, it’s been emotional! This is the last ever edition of thelondonpaper and hence this is my final column on these esteemed pages. Still, we’ve pretty much seen it all over the last three years, haven’t we? Things became so absurd there for a minute that I had to pinch myself daily just to make sure I wasn’t in the middle of some hideous nightmare. I think it’s worth recalling some of the more disturbing highlights of those tumultuous years … particularly as it will help remind us what total scumbags people can become when all that drives them is the single-minded pursuit of money!
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