A banking tale

A banker has to decide whether to lend to a scheme whose product is 'money' or to a factory, making real things. He chooses the latter, his institution misses out on vast profits that the 'money-making project' makes for a rival, and he is duly suspended. Something I read in today's FT maybe? No, the sub-plot of Mary Poppins, currently showing at the Millennium Centre. No wonder it was packed out.

(Sadly, what then happens is as unrealistic as when Mary Poppins floats off on her umbrella - the 'money' project crashes, the factory project booms, and the banker is reinstated. At least his quadrupling of salary has a ring of truth).

No more posts for me for a week or so - taking a break.