2012-03-14
post/19280135275
quote 05:48:05
“ The super-rich index is made up of items that are, let’s say, different. A Russian sable coat at $240,000, a facelift for $18,500, a thoroughbred yearling racehorse at $319,340, a Sikorsky helicopter at $14.8m, an arrangement of flowers changed weekly for six rooms at $98,100 or a year’s tuition at Harvard at $52,652. It is, in a dark way, hilarious that a Harvard education counts as a luxury good. ”
John Lanchester: Why the super-rich love the UK in The Guardian.
2009-05-27
post/113737796
quote 13:08:27
“ [The Royal Bank of Scotland] had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland’s status as a separate nation. ”
John Lanchester, in a London Review Of Books article called It’s Finished, on British banks.
