The Spectator

Letters | 27 September 2008

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issue 27 September 2008

Storing up more trouble

Sir: Your leading article (20 September) calls for a ‘kick up the backside’ to the banking industry. That kick should be aimed elsewhere. The British and American governments have not merely permitted this crisis to happen, but positively created it by a deliberate relaxation of monetary controls.

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