John Crace on how the credit crunch shrunk the charity lunch | Business | The Guardian

John Crace on how the credit crunch shrunk the charity lunch | Business | The Guardian: "Things aren't looking quite so good this time round. With the auction due to end on Friday, the bidding stands at $75,300. This is partly because hedge-fund managers are - thankfully - thinner on the ground, and partly because the ones who are still trading are the ones who realised it would be piss-poor PR to waste their client's money so extravagantly."