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Keeping banks sound - a radical proposal.

How keen-eyed customers could keep banks in order. A big financier has a radical proposal to stop them going off the rails. And Puffin Books at 70 - thriving even after turning down Harry Potter.

How keen-eyed customers could keep banks in order. A big financier has a radical proposal to stop them going off the rails. Sir Martin Jacomb thinks that if depositors lost money when banks failed, then they would watch the banks' executives more keenly. Sound banks would be attractive banks. And Puffin Books at 70 - thriving even after turning down Harry Potter. The secret of success in children's publishing.

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Thu 27 May 2010 07:32GMT

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