This is the page where we upload relevant links from published stories that we later use as examples, during our classes and modules. Especially for the topics of the Financial Instability, the Boom and the Bust, the Ponzi Finance patterns and the Minsky Moment, please visit my personal page: www.nicosrafidhias.co.uk
Professor Luis Garicano – I did not stammer when the Queen asked me about the meltdown
Is a crisis predictable ? – When a Queen makes a question..
Queen finally finds out why no one saw the financial crisis coming
The Guardian: Her Majesty gets the answer to her question – four years after she asked it – on a tour of the Bank of England
The man who blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff
The Guardian: Harry Markopolos spotted Bernard Madoff’s $65bn Ponzi scheme years before it imploded. He tells the Guardian how he lived in fear of his life while trying to convince the world
The collapse of Northern Rock: Ten years on
BBC: Northern Rock – Ten years later [ September 12, 2017 ]
‘We had a Northern Rock mortgage – 20 years on, we’re in a caravan’
inews: Like thousands of mortgage prisoners who took out Northern Rock mortgages before the financial crash, Val and John Allen have lost everything [ November 16, 2025 ]
Last orders: The Victoria Tavern, Hogsthorpe
When losing clients because of soaring prices and taxes
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