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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 11:51 AM Original message |
Northern Rock Customers Crowd Branches, Withdraw Cash (London, England) |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. Once this news gets around, a lot more people will be "crowding" into the lobbies |
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Pirate Smile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. Oh great, bank runs. |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. I wonder if it's owned by a conglomerate. I suspect it will happen here |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
4. Certainly has caused a run on Wall Street... |
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Mark Baker (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 03:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Northern Rock aren't a subprime lender |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
5. Now they have secured the Bank of England funds... |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 04:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. BoE granted Northern Rock an emergency loan.. |
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Henny Penny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 05:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
17. You are asking people to bet their pensions and life |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-16-07 03:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Heresy. |
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TheWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-16-07 03:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Printing your way out of a Crisis solves nothing. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. Northern Rock customers queue for cash as crisis hits high street (run on UK bank) |
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intaglio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 03:52 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Privatisation Stinks |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 03:52 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Not so much"privatization" |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
10. A run on the bank...yet we hear nothing about it on the evening news. |
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SirBlackAdder (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-14-07 07:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Uhhh, ohhhhhh |
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T_i_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 03:53 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. As it's a UK business... |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 08:18 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. This was triggered by Northern Rock saying it had arranged the ability to borrow |
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modrepub (484 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
15. Jumpy customers besiege crisis-hit British bank |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 04:14 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Well the web site crashed bad so they had to go in person. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 05:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. It's actually not involved itself in sub-prime lending |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 05:35 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Hmm, apologies, I got a different impression from some British sources. |
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Neshanic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 05:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. B of E We are not going to help, no sir....uh forget that, we changed our minds. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-15-07 06:23 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. But no-one was standing in line before the BofE made its announcement |
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