Financial crisis 'only a matter of time'; penalising children of unmarried couples; and NS&I disappoints - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …
"It's only a matter of time" A couple of weeks ahead of the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers - the event that really set the global financial crisis in full swing - economist, academic and cross-bench peer Robert Skidelsky tells the Mail on Sunday a sequel is "only a matter of time". According to the piece, Skidelsky is highly critical of economists for not predicting the 2008 global collapse, believes not enough has been done to rein in banks and the City of London over the last decade and expresses concern about the current state of the economy - drawing comparison...
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