I hardlly ever blog on financial matters, but today I was struck by a strange coincidence. It all began a few weeks ago, when I was in my local bank and the cashier was warning people to look out for some very good forgeries of £20 notes. Then someone else chimed in and said that his friend in a nearby town had been offered £20 notes for £12.....
The thing is, everywhere I go I hear this same story. Today I heard these forgeries aren't even confined to Wales, but are plentiful up in Nottingham and even further north.
I wonder then, if it's any coincidence that the UK is in the currently grip of a financial crisis at the same time as the country appears awash with counterfeit £20 notes?
Introducing large scale forgeries to destabilise the economy is nothing new - Nazi Germany did pretty much the same thing in World War II.
It's just a thought.... but an interesting one....
2008-05-10 @ 00:41