Nixon’s ghost hanging over banks inquiry?

THE proposed inquiry into what went wrong with banking (up only to September, 2008) reminds me a bit of Richard Nixon’s famous early declaration on Watergate: “We must get to the bottom of this.

Tue, 26 Jan, 2010 - 00:00

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There will be no whitewash at the White House.”

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