The ICB is now dead, we need to fight for Northern Rock Posted on 2nd September 2011 by Cormac Hollingsworth The Independent Commission on Banking is now dead in the water. The Coalition are going to let the industry roll the dice one more time. Vince Cable has been forced to […]
The management of banks should be sent to Coventry Posted on 10th September 2010 (5th July 2011) by Cormac Hollingsworth On the Building Societies’ Association’s website there is a page recording the mis-fortunes of the demutualised mortgage banks. The financial crisis put paid to the whole sector: Santander, who was […]
Gilts yields at new lows Posted on 26th August 2010 (5th July 2011) by Cormac Hollingsworth Co-operative Party activist Cormac Hollingsworth writes on the potentially disastrous consequences of the Coalition’s economic policies. A new record low yield for government gilts should warn us of the potentially […]