Banking with Bird & Fortune

By Prieur du Plessis, on October 15th, 2009 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

Satirists John Bird and John Fortune offer their take on the boom and the bust, the bankers and the bonuses. Black humor at its best …

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Source: John Bird and John Fortune, Financial Times, October 14, 2009.

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