Last month, BC pointed out that ￡3million will be frittered away on the futile Competition Commission inquiry into the bus industry, and while this will be a waste it pales into insignificance alongside some other numbers I have been studying.rnTake the banks. Yes, they are still throwing money around like confetti despite the near-terminal collapse of the financial services industry less than a year ago. The government (i.e. us taxpayers) owns 84% of Royal Bank of Scotland, which has just declared a loss of ￡3.6billion (yes, that is ￡3,600million) for 2009. The year before, it lost ￡24.3billion - the all-time record for a UK business.
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