Bank of England governor fears crisis is 'worst ever'

[OwlHoot]

And still Antole Kaletsky in the Times says it's nothing to do with Gordon Brown.

Kaletsky is always wrong. I'm surprised he's still employed by the Times. ..

Carrying on the tradition of that other reliable south compass, William Rees-Mogg, aka Mystic Mog.

[Churchill]

The time to worry is when "Merv the swerve" says "Right, **** this for a game of banking, I'm off!".

[TimberWolf]

Just the kind of reassuring words you really want to hear from such a chappy.

Maybe adds justification to go on another printing binge. Isn't it his fault we are in this pickle in the first place?

[Doggy Styles]

Just the kind of reassuring words you really want to hear from such a chappy.

But I suppose if he lowers expectations, anything above that is a bonus and partly thanks to his genius.

[Mich the Tester]

Bank of England governor fears crisis is 'worst ever'

Just the kind of reassuring words you really want to hear from such a chappy.

[suityou01]

This £75billion QE is just to give the banks enough of a buffer to sit it out while Greece defaults, shirley?

[Doggy Styles]

And still Antole Kaletsky in the Times says it's nothing to do with Gordon Brown.

Kaletsky is always wrong. I'm surprised he's still employed by the Times. It's time he moved to the Daily Mirror. Or the Grauniad if he insists on using polysylabalic words. Is polysylabalic a word?

(As an aside, a few weeks ago he reviewed Alistair Darling's book. In a nutshell, he interpreted it as saying what a nice guy Gordon was to work with.)

[OwlHoot]

Bank of England governor fears crisis is 'worst ever'

Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said this financial crisis could be the worst the UK has ever seen.

His comments came after the Bank authorised the injection of a further £75bn into the economy through quantitative easing (QE).

Explaining the move Sir Mervyn told Sky News: "This is the most serious financial crisis we've seen at least since the 1930s, if not ever." ...