{"id":46,"date":"2026-03-09T14:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T14:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:50:08","slug":"case-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/case-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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: <a href=\"https:\/\/nicosrafidhias.co.uk\/2024\/02\/06\/ponzi-financing\/\">www.nicosrafidhias.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2008\/nov\/18\/response-credit-crisis-economy-response\">Professor Luis Garicano &#8211; I did not stammer when the Queen asked me about the meltdown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is a crisis predictable ? &#8211; When a Queen makes a question..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2012\/dec\/13\/queen-financial-crisis-question\">Queen finally finds out why no one saw the financial crisis coming<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guardian: Her Majesty gets the answer to her question \u2013 four years after she asked it \u2013 on a tour of the Bank of England<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2010\/mar\/24\/bernard-madoff-whistleblower-harry-markopolos\">The man who blew the whistle on Bernard Madoff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guardian: Harry Markopolos spotted Bernard Madoff&#8217;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<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/The collapse of Northern Rock: Ten years on\">The collapse of Northern Rock: Ten years on<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BBC: Northern Rock &#8211; Ten years later [ September 12, 2017 ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/we-had-northern-rock-mortgage-20-years-were-in-caravan-4040897\">&#8216;We had a Northern Rock mortgage &#8211; 20 years on, we&#8217;re in a caravan&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/last-orders-the-victoria-tavern-hogsthorpe-people-don-t-come-any-more-i-feel-let-down\/ar-AA1XEEJr?ocid=hpmsn&amp;cvid=69aed390950545588acc003d1c9b2d87&amp;ei=23\">Last orders: The Victoria Tavern, Hogsthorpe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When losing clients because of soaring prices and taxes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ofis42_150b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All text and cases are part of Office Ofis Limited research team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Course material is designed by Office Ofis Limited staff, in order to be used for each training purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nicos-rafidhias\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nicos-rafidhias\/\">Get in touch<\/a> to receive your own customized training solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,4],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-case-studies","tag-welcome-message"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officeofis.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}