Some things are so predictable that you can't claim you're clever because you predicted them! Here is an extract from Robert Peston's blog on the BBC Business pages today. He's talking about regulation of our financial institutions following . . . er . . recent dramatic financial events.
"What's striking is that both the British Treasury and the White House are not contemplating the kind of structural reforms of the banking industry that the US adopted towards the end of the Great Depression. There will, for example, be no formal prohibition on what the banks, insured by all of us as taxpayers, can do. Those big banks that are so big and important to the economy that they won't be allowed to collapse - well, those banks will still be permitted to engage in what the Governor of the Bank of England (no less) has described as "casino" banking in the wholesale markets."
Now see my ominous rumblings.
And what about the FTSE Index? Tell us about the FTSE Index! It stands just now at 4306 - almost smack in the middle of my 1000 point Put to Call spread - and looking highly likely that I shall trouser the £2062 I got for "short" selling the contracts a month ago.
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