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  • By casting Sir Fred as the pantomime villain – the credit crunch's Dick Dastardly – the unholy trinity of Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and Lord Mandelson has been able to deflect attention from Labour's calamitous stewardship.

    Democracy? Respect for law? (update) Not a sheep 2009

  • It also reports the British Social Housing Foundation pointing out that the progress made under Boris owes a great deal to the government bringing forward social housing funding through the Homes and Communities Agency to help the house-building industry get over the crunch's effects - a point well made by the Mayor's political opponents the last time he blew his own trumpet about housing.

    London housing crisis: trouble ahead 2010

  • At the credit crunch's peak, it rocketed up to about 460 basis points.

    Short-Term Funding Rates Push Higher 2010

  • The ECB identified them as a key source of funding for banks when it launched its purchase program in 2009 to blunt the credit crunch's impact on the market.

    European Banks Return to Covered Bonds 2010

  • Another risk gauge, the TED spread, which measures the gap between three-month bill yields and interbank lending rates, was 11 basis points — a far cry from the 460 basis points at the crunch's peak.

    Libor, Repo Rates Climbing Deborah Lynn Blumberg 2010

  • Perhaps they think it's too early to do so - given that the credit crunch's still a-raging - and they might be right to think that.

    Setting a timetable for reprivatisation 2009

  • The atrophy in production capacity and the credit crunch's impact on exploration are setting the stage for a dramatic price rise.

    BET ON STUFF 2009

  • Covered-bond bankers have clear ideas on what the plan, announced on May 7, should include to best brunt the credit crunch's impact.

    ECB's Covered-Bond Plan Is Short on Details 2009

  • Perhaps they think it's too early to do so - given that the credit crunch's still a-raging - and they might be right to think that.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • Perhaps they think it's too early to do so - given that the credit crunch's still a-raging - and they might be right to think that.

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

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