The staple
of the Hollywood B movie was the Mad Scientist working away in his laboratory
desperately trying to engineer a monster or come up with a powerful formula
which would lead to world domination. Inevitably all these grandiose plans
ended in failure and the world carried on as before.
Fast
forward to today’s world and the threat comes from a different source the Mad
Banker. Working away not in laboratories but behind banks of computer screens
these would be Masters of the Universe still try to control the world through
their own form of financial engineering.
By
developing trading instruments and programmes of ever increasing complexity
they have created monsters which just like Dr Frankenstein they could not
control.
In the UK with more than £1.3 billion
poured into complex investments during the first 2 months of 2012 the
ingredients for another toxic cocktail are being put into place.
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