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Banks’ Barely Believable Behaviour Money

John Lanchester | London Review Of Books | 27th June 2013
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Short history of scandals in the British banking industry since the 2008 crash. Short in proportion to the scandals, that is, which were many and colossal, most recently the mass selling of insurance to people who couldn’t claim on it. As Lanchester says, it may be fortunate for the banks that so many scandals came in such a short period, defying attempts to grasp the scale and folly of any one of them individually. Read this and weep (6,700 words)

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