Thursday, March 1, 2012

Sir Mervyn King accuses banks of profiting at taxpayers' expense by rigging lending

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In a remarkable outburst at the Treasury Select Committee, Sir Mervyn launched a scathing attack on the banks and claimed that Labour had been too easily swayed by the forceful banking lobby when in power.
He also dismissed the threat to the UK's AAA sovereign credit rating – urging the Government not to be "slaves to the rating agencies", while testimony by a colleague revealed a split among rate-setters over how quantitative easing (QE) should be conducted.
In some of his most outspoken comments about the banks, he said the industry had been an obstacle to Government efforts to raise the level of small and medium-sized (SME) business lending to stimulate the recovery.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9114395/Sir-Mervyn-King-accuses-banks-of-profiting-at-taxpayers-expense-by-rigging-lending.html

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