With a federal deficit of 485 billion in 2008?

[mrplunkey]

thats a tired old myth made up to appease the American inferiority complex.

 

[Tatyana]

no one owns us, we have the Queen

And Barclay's which purchased a wee bit of AGI.

Good thing we have already paid back the debt we had to the US for WWII in the 90s.


Halifax of Scotland collapsed today as well, but it was purchased by, erm, sorry forget.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Where in the hell did we find 85 billion to bail out AIG?

It's called a democrat congress.

 

[gotmilk]

Halifax of Scotland collapsed today as well, but it was purchased by, erm, sorry forget.

Lloyds. HBOS didn't collapse, they merged to increase their cash pool so they do not become the next Northern Rock.

HBOS shares were around 88 pence yesterday. The Lloyd's swap is worth close to 2.15 EURO....that's a nice quick flip