LIZ JONES: £700k pensions for the Puff Daddy bankers, a bashing for you and me

A Butler Tech teacher is being honored for her part in developing and teaching an online course in personal finance.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008 — Company: Deltek Headquarters: Herndon, Va. 2007 U.S. Booked Air Volume: $6 million

With losses mounting within the mortgage-insurance industry, some applicants for mortgage insurance are being turned away, while others will have to pay higher premiums.

Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma has reshuffled his cabinet and appointed the governor of the central bank as his new finance minister.

Japan may offer emergency loans to Japan Airlines Corp. and All Nippon Airways Co., the country’s biggest carriers, for the first time in five years as they forecast losses amid a drop in passengers. The government may arrange for the Development Bank of Japan to offer an undecided amount of low-interest loans to domestic carriers [...]

The National Pensions Reserve Fund Bill has been published.

A Labour MP is to launch a formal bid to change the law to limit the pensions paid out to bankers working for institutions bailed out by the taxpayer, she announced tonight.

Council leaders should be forced to cut “gold-plated” pensions for town hall staff because they will be unsustainable during a deepening recession, a pressure group said on Friday.

Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) — TUI AG said investments in its Hapag-Lloyd shipping line will be scrapped this year, a day after the company renegotiated the sale of the business to a Hamburg-based investment group.