Horror story
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There is an argument that the way the government and the regulator have handled the credit crunch has been nothing sort of farcical.
And some of the stories that have emerged certainly come into the ‘you couldn’t make it up’ category, which may explain the stance taken by one bookshop when it came to where to put economist Roger Bootle’s last offering.
In his latest book, reviewed in this week’s Media Spotlight (opposite), Bootle says he went to his local branch of a major chain of bookstores expecting to see his tome The Death Of Inflation on display in the finance section. Instead, he was puzzled to find it in the fiction/murder mystery section.
It may be a mystery how we didn’t see the crunch coming and many would say that bankers got away with murder, but Mole thinks if the book had to be placed somewhere other than the economic section surely the horror shelves would have been more fitting.
