Banks – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

A Caja Castilla la Mancha anecdote

Broadly illustrative of how we got where we are, with a joke at the end.

Do traders prefer blondes?

If the UK’s worse hit than Spain, how come there’s less fear in the markets of it defaulting on its sovereign debt?

Bank of Spain introduces inflation-proof €500 banknotes

As private banker to dozens of Andalusian officials I have been responsible for maintaining the padded mattress sector in work this year. Before the summer a client called to complain that inflation threatened to render worthless the not particularly hard-earned stash of 500s he maintains under one of my beds. But there is more woof…