Bank of England
Total war declared on economy, in Beeston
Posted by Theo Blackwell at Wed, 21/01/2009 - 12:32pm in
Mandate was on hand to witness last night's extraordinary speech by Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to the East Midlands CBI in Nottingham.
While the eyes of the world were firmly fixed on the inauguration of Barack Obama, America's first African-American President, economic history was being quietly made on Beeston, Nottinghamshire, with the announcement of a range of "unconventional measures" to keep the economy afloat and an astonishing attack on the banks.
