Thursday 1 May 2008

Don't Panic, Captain Mainwaring!

Just in time for the local elections, Mervyn King tries to calm the fears of jittery potential Labour voters:

"Banks previously over-willing to lend are now too reluctant, even with credit-worthy borrowers, it suggested.

This increased fear of risk has itself undermined confidence in financial institutions and made them reluctant to lend to each other, the Bank added."


Good boy...good doggie! Gordon has a biscuit for you! Yes he does...

2 comments:

Ross said...

Just spotted your new blog, good luck with it.

JuliaM said...

Thanks.

It gives me somewhere to put those 'Oh, I can't believe I just read that..!' comments when none of my usual daily blogreads is mentioning them.. :)