Tony Klinger

I was sent this Q & A by a friend from South Africa (thanks John) and I wanted to share it with you. It sums up banking, then and now.
First published in British magazine “Punch” on April 3,  1957:
Q: What are banks for?
A: To make money.
Q: For the customers?
A: For the banks.
Q: Why doesn’t bank [...]

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This is just a quick note to those of you, like me, almost exhausted by the never ending torrent of awful economic news. In the end it’s the good guys who put out the fire, not the fire which wins. Yes, we might well lose some structure, and yes, there will be casualties, but in [...]

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Like most of you we are struggling through the global financial meltdown. Personally I have a solution, which I shall now float to you, my peers, to see if it is reasonable.
IMAGINE if over the last ten years or so I had decided to borrow a great deal of money from a bank that didn’t [...]

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I’m an unusual reviewer. You might already have guessed this from my writing style or the fact that commenting on the creative work of others, when you work creatively yourself is a fairly strange way to spend your time.
But the reason I consider myself strange is that I hardly ever accept a “freebie”, which is [...]

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This week the European Champion’s League football season kicked off. There are the rich and the poor in every sport, but rarely, if ever, is the discrepancy so large as it is here. It won’t be a surprise if a poor team wins the European Champions League, it will be a genuine miracle.
Two nights ago [...]

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