Bruce Anderson: Human beings still don't understand money (Independent)
Story date: 2008-03-23 05:24:32
Added on: 2008-03-23 17:57:55
The centre of Edinburgh is full of Victorian banking halls. Resplendent in marble pillars and wood panelling, monuments to a previous age, they are also symbols of a new one. Many of them have become wine bars. Something was lost, one feels, when the banking culture was displaced by a wine bar culture.
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