It still hurts 16 years on. Gerald Ratner reveals the pain of becoming ...

Story date: 2007-10-20 03:38:00
Added on: 2007-10-20 16:00:22

Times Online - Interest rates were rising steeply to cope with the high inflation caused by the consumer boom of the Eighties. At one point, the mortgage repayments on my latest home – a house by the ... can’t get any worse than this.” It was probably the lowest ...


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