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Did Bowie cause the credit crunch? Has Gordon Brown saved the world? From multi-billion dollar frauds to absent-minded Germans leaving their savings in toilets, there's something here for everyone. With sections on celebrity, sport, political gaffes - and a round up of all news that is about more than money - it proves beyond any doubt that finance needn't be boring.
 Funny Finance News
  Gordon Ramsay in loan trouble
  Bishops - give up ipods for lent
  Care worker offered £84m overdraft
  German leaves £9,000 in toilet
  Unemployed to star in Full Monty remake
  Crunch fuels breakdowns
  "Fat chav" insurance claim form leaked
  Recession takes bite out of shark attacks
Scandals and Fraud
  Drunk Japanese finance minister quits  
  Merrill suspends trader after £284m loss  
  9 arrested for £40m mortgage fraud  
  Cricket tycoon in £9bn fraud  
  How French bankers "lost" E600m  
  Madoff placed under house arrest  
  UBS to pay $760m for tax fraud
  Banker forced to steal £6.25m
  Scandals: the complete roundup
Celebrity Money
  Celebs hit by the crunch
  Did David Bowie cause the crunch?
  J.K.Rowling is world's richest author
  Michael Moore to make crunch movie
  Gordon Gecko heads back to Wall St
  Oscar win for Slum Dog "worth £9m"
  Celebs buy Heathrow runway land
Did they really say that?
  Brown: "we saved the world"
  PM in "depression" slip
  Olympic Minister: "We wouldn't bid now"
  Bankers should get ASBOS: Trade Union
  Detroit prays for auto bailout
  Mr T gives advice to unemployed
Sport and The Crunch
  How the credit crunch is affecting football
  The 20 richest football clubs in the world
  Champions League winners to pocket £98m
  Newcastle United owner aborts sale
  Sheffield United to leave stock exchange
  Honda pulls out of Formula 1
  Trump to build £1bn Scottish golf resort
Tales of greed...
  Five bankers spend £43,000 on booze-up
  Mistress drives tycoon lover off cliff
  Merrill bonuses create 696 millionaires
  Madoff's wife withdrew £10m
  Argos bills customers twice
  Irish consumer debt reaches $1.2 trillion
 The Crunch Effect
  Santa blamed for tight Christmas  
  McDonalds to offer "McA-Levels"  
  Crunch causes sleepy drivers  
  Man shoots himself on trading floor  
  Recession fear makes people work harder  
  UK falls behind Namibia in banking stability survey
  Beer sales fall to decade low
Dirt Cheap
  Zimbabwe issues 100m dollar note...
  ...Zimbabwe issues 500m dollar note
  Ex-KGB agent buys Evening Standard for £1
  Sir Alan Sugar buys stake in Woolworths
  Woolies up for sale for £1
  Dragon aborts Woolworths takeover bid
Other Business
  Credit Crunch jokes
  Queen's speech targets economy
  Pawn stars for a new generation
  World's oldest profession hit by crunch
  London fashion week clouded by gloom
  Cadburys milks the crunch
  British Entrepreneur loses a billion in a day

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Q. After two of the World's largest banks declare a return to profit, is it safe to say the banking crisis over?
Yes - all the skeletons are out of the closet
Probably - Investor confidence is starting to return
It's impossible to tell at this stage
No - this is a desperate ploy to boost credibility
No - the damage is deep, and lasting

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