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Roger.And how long have you worked in the city?Twelve years.What sort of banking thing do you do?I'm an insurance broker working for a finance company.Do you have an opinion on the Occupation?Well I think it's an easy thing to hit on the banks and the financial community. But it's not very well informed, because everyone depends on what the City does. I mean, the UK in general benefits very much from having the financial centre here. Without it, a lot more people would be unemployed, plus we would pay more for stuff.What do you think about the actual people camped out for the Occupation? Is it a problem them being there?It seems a bit like in New York, I mean they're all… I mean… they look like… hmmm…Hippies?Yeah! And in Madrid, and in Italy, as you would expect, it's the militant anarchists out on the street beating up the shops. It doesn't really help the cause. Just wait for the Germans to show up, they can be tough as well.What's gone wrong with the economy, do you think? No one over at the camp had much insight.A lot of the problems we have in the financial crisis are due to the different layers of debt that the economy created. It was said that the very top layer, which basically didn't earn interest at all, was so secure that the banks didn't need to count it against equity. But it wasn't super-safe, and they failed to count it against equity. If they had, a lot of the problems we're currently having could have been avoided.
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