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The chairman gets to grips with big industry report thingies

'I guess what really hurts,' said the chairman of the insignificantly sized investment company SmallBlue Planet, 'is that the FSA didn't even see fit to shortlist me to write one of those big industry report thingies that were published recently. I mean, you couldn't honestly look me in the eye and tell me I would have done a lesser job than Sanders.' 'On the contrary I agreed,' I said. 'I think you would have been easily as good.' And I was being serious. After all, it now seems obvious that Sanders and the chairman are pretty well matched when it comes to their understanding of the wond...

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