Boardmad

An extract from Google Financials with four of the larget UK players in the Investment banking and financial services based back to a relative price at the start of September ‘08.
Those relative losses in value over one month make for painful reading…

RBS - buy at £1.50

Firstly this nifty bit of photoshopping celebrating the coupling of Lloyds TSB + Halifax

And this little beauty on the might of the US dollar

“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.”

Or….alternatively you could just grab a buddy and amid the hand-wringing, woe is us media frenzy infront of Lehman Brothers snog the crap out of your buddy on live US TV….good job guys. Made me laugh in the midst of a tough day.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/cnn_broadcast/