Tip for Tett

The FT's Gillian Tett today makes the now common mistake, when she says that clients are "risking the wrath of the giant Vampire Squid".
The actual phrase used by Matt Taibbi about Goldman Sachs was "great vampire squid". Surely if you steal other people's work, it's best to at least get it right...

Nobody going for Gold

Here's Gillian Tett's new book on the credit crunch, Fool's Gold, which you can see is coming under economic pressure itself having been discounted just a couple of month's after the tome's glamorous launch party. Fortunately, Gillian still has her day job as a columnist on the Financial Times where she writes about the potential of the "current wave of extraordinary policy measures unleash[ing] a wild bout of inflation". Not in publishing, luv.

Surveillance...

Treasury Select Committee chairman John McFall engrossed in conversation with Lord "just take the pension, Sir Fred" Myners at the launch of some credit crunch book by FT hackette, Gillian Tett. What can they have been discussing?