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Economy recovering confidence after counselling, support from friends

‘When I look back on it, my problems had been building up for years, but I just hadn’t been facing up to them,’ admitted the Economy.

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Posted: May 23rd, 2013
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Cashpoints now asking if you can really afford it

Customers of the leading high street banks have reported that automated telling machines are becoming increasingly stingy and obstructive. Since the credit crunch started to bite earlier in the year, a number of cashpoints have started to give vague excuses about not having the right change on them, displaying messages suggesting that you might be asking for too much or just showing half an inch of the notes requested, but then refusing to actually let go of the cash.

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Posted: May 5th, 2013
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James Crosby to be given knighthood for giving up knighthood

A spokesmanperson for Buckingham Palace said: ‘We like to recognise acts of selflessness, and this is surely a great example.

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Posted: Apr 10th, 2013
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Banker learns everything would be better if he’d never been born

'Bedford Falls. Wallet Gains'Former Investment Banker, Henry F. Potter, was shocked to discover that life for everyone would be much, much better if he had simply never been born.

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Posted: Dec 22nd, 2012
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Robert Peston’s smugness growing as world nears economic meltdown

models his voice on fluctuations in the stock market - currently very deep‘We’ve tried to get him doing some positive stories about economic growth, but he thinks he’s the poster boy of economic Armageddon.’

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Posted: Nov 3rd, 2012
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