Katherine Bucknell On The Lehman Brothers’ African Pump
WRITES the Times: “After Lehman Brothers: desperate City wives“:
The real-life stresses and strains of being married to an investment banker forms the backdrop to Katherine Bucknell’s bestselling US novel Canarino; Here she explains what the repercussions are for the families caught up in the latest financial meltdown…
At last, someone to make sense of it all…
For every vanished pile there will be crying children, an angry spouse, unemployed builders and domestic help, goods left on shop shelves, flats and houses available to rent or buy, empty restaurants, and villages in Africa that don’t get their new water pump after all.
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Posted: 20th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Media Bitch, Money Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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September 20th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Probably swimming the Atlantic already to offer their condolences in person…
September 20th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Wow this is rich… touch the elite rich and billions in Africa will suffer!
I wonder how the billions in Africa feel about it? Will they support Lady Bountiful?
September 20th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Or, in this case, a credit default swaps lining, before it dawns on the world that the Hail Mary Pass hasn’t got a receiver in the end zone…
September 20th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Just hope they can still afford my fees.
But on the bright side we can all eat now, and find a builder plumber etc - every cloud has a silver lining