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Clown raises bank savings guarantee to £50,000
amcluesent
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Gordon Brown has confirmed that the government plans to raise the guarantee for bank savings to £50,000 from £35,000 in a new banking law.
Clown: "Crivens! Are them new printing presses working?"
BoE: "£50 notes are showering down like confetti!"
Clown: "Excellent...the English middle-class will be broken by my inflation! Hoots!"
Clown: "Crivens! Are them new printing presses working?"
BoE: "£50 notes are showering down like confetti!"
Clown: "Excellent...the English middle-class will be broken by my inflation! Hoots!"
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Not yet just soon?
Brown confirmed the increase would be included in banking reforms to be put to parliament soon.
Soon is clearly open to interpretation. My guess is 2-weeks before the next election, or perhaps I am just cynical?In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:0 -
FDIC requesting to raise US savers guarantee from $100,000 to $250,000.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ayB4IpkH_MkY&refer=homeHope for the best.....Plan for the worst!
"Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse." Unknown0 -
Makes me laugh, whatever is done, there is always someone ready to moan.0
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Only the Mail would have prefixed its headline about extra protection with 'Should we be worried?'
And what it has to do with inflation is a mystery to me.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0
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