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We here aren’t jumping on the kill Barclays bandwagon, but this was too good to pass up.

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KeithGram: The LIBOR Scandal

By now, most readers are aware that Barclays and probably many other banks have been caught red-handed gaming the London Inter-Bank Offer Rate (LIBOR).

No, I am not going to analyze the “cause”, call for more regulation, propose lawsuits, or lament that “banksters” today are “greedy”. I have a simpler and subtler point.

In the [...]

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Libor Pains

“It was when Nick Clegg joined the campaign against Bob Diamond that I started to feel a sliver of sympathy for the now former-boss of Barclays. Not very much sympathy, mind. Just a tiny bit. But put yourself in Bob Diamond’s hand-made crocodile-skin loafers for a moment. You build a business [...]

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Global Terror Update

“The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create [...]

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