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Mon 02 Feb 2010Misplaced faith that something will turn up
Micawberish thinking on the problems in our banks means that, 18 months into the crisis, no effective repair action has taken place
ONE OF Dickens’s great characters is Wilkins Micawber, in David Copperfield, who was wont to say “something will turn up”, and it appears as though such sentiments are at work still in Government thinking on the banks.
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