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Candy brothers deny split from Rogers Stirk Harbour Chelsea Barracks

Developers the Candy brothers have told the AJ 'there is no truth' in reports that the Qatari ruling family, a joint-venture partner on the £1 billion Chelsea Barracks development, wants to take full control of the project.

According to the Sunday Telegraph, Qatari Diar Real Estate wants to seize the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris' (AHMM) designed-scheme from the Candys, leaving them as 'marketing managers and interior designers'.

It has been alleged that the Qataris have been unhappy with the progress of the controversial scheme, a 5ha luxury apartment development.

Speaking on behalf of Project Blue, the owner of the Chelsea Barracks site, Christian Candy said: 'Nothing has changed – the former Chelsea Barracks site is 100 per cent under the ownership of a joint venture between Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company and CPC Group (Project Blue Guernsey Limited). more

Hard Candy Album Review Article

The GOP Blames the Victim

Mortgage originators thus had no choice but to hand out mortgages like candy. Had market forces been in charge, loans would, no doubt, have been administered with a rigor and sternness to make John Calvin blanch.

I asked Bill Black, a professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and an authority on the Savings and Loan debacle of the 1980s, what he thought of the latest blame offensive. He pointed out that, for all their failings, Fannie and Freddie didn't originate any of the bad loans -- that disastrous piece of work was done by purely private, largely unregulated companies, which did it for the usual bubble-logic reason: to make a quick buck.

Most of the mistakes for which we are paying now, Mr. Black told me, were actually made "by four entities that under conservative economic theory should have exercised effective market discipline -- the appraisers, the originators of the mortgages, the rating agencies, and the investment banking firms that packaged the subprime mortgage-backed securities." Instead of "disciplining" the markets, these private actors "served as the four horsemen of the financial apocalypse, aiding the accounting fraud and inflating the housing bubble." It is they, Mr. more

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