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Originally Posted by [Phill]
Weird choice given the continued existence of goldman sachs.
C'mon, Barclays was called Boerclays for a while. Barclays is also rated the
worst UK bank for honesty and customer service. I get that Barclays sponsors the Premier League so maybe you cut it some slack. But Barclays also paid a $300M fine for doing business with Cuba in violation of various sanctions (shortly before Jeb Bush went to work for them), as well as paying fines for money laundering, tax evasion, etc. And Barclays charges children 600 pounds to be mascots? That bank is a turd.
The worst American bank is probably JP Morgan, where Oxford-born Blythe Masters worked. Blythe is the person credited with inventing financial weapons of mass destruction, credit default swaps. She also led JP's Global Commodity division until this past summer, when JP sold it due to Dodd-Frank, and poor Blythe was not part of the sale. Though she made like $15M last year, so she ain't all that poor. About the sale of the business, Blythe said, "We are no longer able to make prices". "Make prices". Exactly. Another way to say that is, "rig prices" or "fix prices".
You can thank Blythe for paying through the nose for crude oil over the past 11 years.
She's a rather attractive bird tho.
And, Phil, don't tell me I'm being a misogynist, when dear Blythe is defacing your currency, literally, and at the BoE.
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Originally Posted by chezlaw
It's just English if you don't mind. You can call it English English if you really must
lol, a friend from Manchester once told me during an argument we were having over some word usage, "Don't tell me, we invented English!" lol, bastard, but it was hard to argue against that. I stole his beer on a regular basis though, so it all came out in the wash. Grolsch. Awesome beer.
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Ranking badness of banks is beyond me, sorry. Unless one of them has been slaughtering babies in the boardroom it's hard to know where to start.
True that.