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Banks to stay - not go!

  • Written by The Conversation

It is such a shame that the story of lemmings rushing pell-mell over a cliff to their deaths is just a myth created by Walt Disney because it describes really well the panic that sometimes grips financial markets.

One such panic was (can we ever forget) when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and all hell broke out in the financial markets,...

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