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Too big to reform? How banks capture the state

November 23, 2018 by Sceptical Scot Editors Leave a Comment

Too big to reform? How banks capture the state

‘What we have done is to allow the banks to get away with this scot-free and, in the crisis that was caused, we have made the poor pay for it and we have made them do that through cutting benefits, through austerity, through cutting government spending generally, but also through Quantitative Easing (QE)..’

How Lloyds swallowed HBOS hook, line and sinker

September 19, 2018 by Ray Perman 3 Comments

How Lloyds swallowed HBOS hook, line and sinker

‘I think the deal stinks’ said one Lloyds shareholder. ‘A lot of people will lose their jobs’, said the former Bank of Scotland CEO. No-one foresaw the full and lasting cost of Lloyds rushed takeover of HBOS in September 2008.

Life savings lost in HBOS crash – Apocalypse Now: Part 2

September 10, 2018 by Ray Perman 1 Comment

Life savings lost in HBOS crash – Apocalypse Now: Part 2

Who has paid the cost in the HBOS crash? Inside HBOS, staff earning £15,000 -£18,000, who were also shareholders, were watching their savings evaporate. Ray Perman continues the story of a banking disaster unresolved to this day.

Apocalypse now and then…ten years after HBOS crash

September 7, 2018 by Ray Perman 10 Comments

Apocalypse now and then…ten years after HBOS crash

The events leading up to the crash began in New York, 7 September 2008. A week later the shock waves engulfed Scotland’s oldest bank in Edinburgh.

How Scotland’s premier banks crashed the economy: ten years on

September 7, 2018 by Sceptical Scot Editors 4 Comments

How Scotland’s premier banks crashed the economy: ten years on

To mark the tenth anniversary of the financial crisis, Sceptical Scot’s new series focuses on home-made follies; the extraordinary mistakes made by two once revered and typically prudent Scottish institutions: the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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