Inquiry would be first step to bank recovery

They say that paper never refused ink and so the global financial and economic crisis that took root five years ago has resulted in millions of column inches each and every day.

It’s been like “manna from heaven” for newspaper journalists, columnists, and the news-hungry public.

However, there is a limit to how much anger and indignation we can actually take and that limit is when virtually each and every meeting starts with a comment or a question on the latest financial sector revelations gleaned from the daily newspapers. There just seems to be no end to it, from Barclays being fined $450m for manipulating the Libor rate to Barclays thinking its CEO could actually weather the storm.