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Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by arethuza on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:40AM (#31156419)
My favourite bit is that the organisation set up to handle the English "bail out" money eventually became RBS which, a few hundred years later ended up requiring yet another epic bailout from the UK government.
Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by smcl on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:54AM (#31156645)
I had no idea about that, what an interesting fact :D
Re:The candy stores of Oxford Street by arethuza on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:17PM (#31156979)
I got that from the book "Shredded: Inside RBS: The Bank that Broke Britain" by Ian Fraser.

Another interesting fact: for a short while before it imploded, RBS was actually the largest bank in the world by assets!