Who's the World's Worst Banker?
I would nominate this guy. Who would you pick?
The result? RBS's stock (here's a two-year chart) has lost 91 percent of its value since March 2007 and retains value thanks only to massive government intervention. A job well-done, Sir Fred!
Disagree with our conclusion? Send your nominations and supporting arguments for Worst Banker in the World to moneybox@slate.com.
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Daniel Gross is the Moneybox columnist for Slate and the business columnist for Newsweek. You can e-mail him at moneybox@slate.com and follow him on Twitter. His latest book, Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, has just been published in paperback.
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