As another year draws to a close, we look back at the financial trends and milestones of 2008. It’s been an ‘interesting’ year! . . .

. . . In addition, the collapse of Icelandic bank Icesave tied up billions of pounds of savers’ money until the bailout by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. Sadly, the government has yet to rescue savers who lost out when offshore subsidiaries of UK-registered banks went bust, leaving thousands of Brits nursing an £860 million loss. What a shameful disgrace!  30-Dec-08.

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