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How the Rumour Mill mafia is destroying everybody's savings
The reasons are clear. When the Rock started to disintegrate, first its directors, then the regulators and finally the Chancellor insisted that the business was sound. But depositors called their bluff and the company's finances crumbled. The bank exists today, thanks entirely to the taxpayer.
Had this with Equitable Life, first we were assured the guaranteed rate ruling would make little difference, then that an interest pause of 6 months would recover the situation, then etc etc. In the end many who kept on believing it lost thousands.
People do not believe such assurances because we have heard it all before. Because the FSA do not do the job they are paid to do and they allow the public to go on being deceived. Maybe they and other regulatory bodies should be looking at the balance sheets of healthy companies with a more cynical eye and assesing the risks before there is a problem.
Had this with Equitable Life, first we were assured the guaranteed rate ruling would make little difference, then that an interest pause of 6 months would recover the situation, then etc etc. In the end many who kept on believing it lost thousands.
People do not believe such assurances because we have heard it all before. Because the FSA do not do the job they are paid to do and they allow the public to go on being deceived. Maybe they and other regulatory bodies should be looking at the balance sheets of healthy companies with a more cynical eye and assesing the risks before there is a problem.
good point - I was also with equitable. I finally moved when I read comment from city editor of telegraph - he said hardest thing is admitting you made a mistake.
Telegraph did a feature on me with a piccie of me and my ex
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