Money matters

June 25, 2010 · Filed Under Finance, adviser, financial news · Comment 

Money, Money, Money
Did you see the astonishing financial news this week that British banks are allegedly amongst the best (and best-off) in the world? How can this be? These are after all the reckless institutions staffed by utter incompetents that the taxpayer bailed out.
To my mind, banks are dull utilities. And [...]

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Money, Money, Money

October 15, 2009 · Filed Under Alistair Darling, Banks, Lloyds bank group · Comment 

I see Alistair Darling is ready to hand over up to £5bn of taxpayers’ money to the part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group in order to shore up its finances. If there is one thing guaranteed to make me more angry than incompetent politicians – it is incompetent politicians and incompetent bankers working together to rip [...]

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