Many City workers are concerned the gap between rich and poor may still not be sufficiently vast for their private jets to taxi through, according to a report by a think-tank. The St Paul's Institute report, Value and Values: Perceptions of Ethic...
Throughout the ages, great breakthroughs have often resulted from a lucky interface between unconnected fields of research. It seems that just such a coincidence may be close to explaining the current economic poo pile that we find ourselves living i...
A crisis meeting of the Lost Causes Federation, of which your reporter is honoured to be Chairman, has been discussing urgently the decision made recently to make the protest outside St Paul's Cathedral a Lost Cause. Disturbing reports indicate th...
Banking Think Tank Pourous (known to friends as 'Poor Us') has come up with a plan to save Europe from economic meltdown. The idea is that for each country China saves from defaulting they will receive one of the famous Barclays Piggy Banks. After...
Economists are turning to cosmologists to keep track of inflation, it is rising that fast. "It's going up so quickly," said Esme Duvet, economist for the London School of Economics Economy Department, "that we've been told that future economists w...
In a week that has seen the leaders of the most powerful countries in the world skitting around like loose sheep on a motorway, one of the most powerful and least understood nation states has finally made a decisive move. As the Eurozone countrie...
Washington DC - With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama has rescued the world from a catastrophic economic meltdown. The president signed into law today The Quantitative Time Act, effectively freeing every man, woman and child on the pla...
The PM will announce that he is ordering the immigration department to start deporting old people (instead of illegals) in order to lower Social Security and NHS costs. A plan to rescue the country's economy, formulated and presented by Chancellor...
Shock at the G20 Summit in Cannes as the Greek Prime Minister disturbed world order by deciding to ask the Greek people what they thought about the deal he made made with Europe over their future. 'We all believe in democracy' blurted Sarkorsy 'bu...
A diplomatic storm is brewing as leaders of the G20 nations gathered in Cannes on the promise of a bit of a chat about the economy, a slap up buffet and some of the best wine that the local branch of Carrefour could offer. Instead, sources from withi...
WASHINGTON DC - Recent college graduate Molly Katchpole who not only is broke like a joke but also an aspiring politician earned her ticket to the White House when she single-handedly pulled the nations second largest bank's hands out of her pockets...
With the announcement of getting an early jump on the seasonal shopping season; Kohl's, Target and Macy's hope to kickstart "Black Friday" by opening very late in the evening on Thanksgiving, Named Black Friday because the day is a quasi benchmark fo...
A gang of robbers, stormed the Bank of England yesterday, and demanded staff deposit thirty billion Euros into its safes. Brandishing sawn off water pistols and stink bombs, the gang burst into the foyer of the bank, squirting customers and securi...
The prayers of the world's bankers and investment firms have been answered. The Bank of God has agreed to cover all global debt in exchange for what God is calling "The Ten Commitments." "We tend to forget that God is a shrewd money manager," said...
New York City - The world's largest investment firm is going all out this Halloween to make the holiday special for the thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters who have become its neighbors in the financial district. "For starters, we're going...
With economic gloom causing problems for Spoof writers the Government is faced with some difficult decisions. Clearly there are too many people around and plans to gas old people who are living too long have been secretly amended as it was discove...
As the European financial system collapses all around, there is one certainty - that the Germans will be ok. The German economy has stood proud with its moustache bristling for decades now, an economic miracle throughout bad times and good. So how has Germany managed to keep this up? I spoke to three economists to find out. Financier Goldie Goldstein thought the answer was obvious. "It's gold,"...
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