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From Dave’s bank to better banking for all
How would you like an annual return of 5% on your savings? Sadly this rate –...
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Are we losing trust in the financial system?
The Governor of the Bank of England this week seemed a mite perplexed that the economy...
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A Politician’s Guide to Fixing the Banking System
A guest post by R.F. Morrison The confrontation between top bankers and public opinion escalated with...
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Are self-destructive banks wrecking the economy?Any rational person must wonder what has got into our banks. Rarely the most...
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Make bankers personally liable, says MPIt is four years or so since the start of the financial crisis and...
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Simon Rose on BBC News discussing why savers distrust the banks- Posted 450 days ago
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Should bankers’ income tax be linked to the unemployment rate?Steve Hilton, David Cameron’s strategy director, has been widely reported for indulging in some...
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Bait pricing makes suckers out of saversThe majority of savers are allowing inertia to get the better of them –...
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Why do we put up with it?This is a short & familiar tale of general bank ineptitude that I have...
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Why have a crash if we don’t learn the lessons? Part 4 – Making it pay to saveSo what of the future? Well, austerity, higher taxes and job losses may leave...
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Why have a crash if we don’t learn the lessons? Part 3 – More banks?What has government learned from this experience? That we need more banks and more...
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Why have a crash if we don’t learn the lessons? Part 2 – Some lessons we did learnI am old enough to have witnessed enough economic crises to need a second...
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Why have a crash if we don’t learn the lessons? Part 1 – Muddled messagesWhat you may be asking can a journalist – someone with all the popularity...
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We need greater social responsibility as well as financial stabilityFollowing the banking crisis there is a growing body of opinion that the current...
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We know what they did. But what did they promise to do?We have collected together some of the promises made...
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The extraordinary political power of unelected central bankersQuantitative Easing is a massive global monetary experiment which...
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Should savers be scared of big, bad Canadian wolf Mark Carney?With only two months until Bank of Canada Governor...
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Warning: low interest rates are seriously damaging your economyThere was widespread coverage of the Co-operative Bank’s failure...
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The extraordinary academic parallel universe of the Bank of EnglandProfessor David Miles is a member of the Bank...
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How to have your inflationary cake and eat itInflation is proving to be the Chancellor’s best friend....
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