Doctors take vows to act in the best interests of their patients. They work.
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The best way to get bankers to behave well might be to bind them to a code of ethics, like doctors. We've tried ever tighter rules.
Christie’s auctions off a Lehman Brothers sign in 2010.
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It's when times are good that the seeds of the next financial crisis are sown.
The industry has walked a tight rope to survive. Many have fallen along the way.
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Banking used to be an engine of social mobility and a generator of secure, satisfying employment for the many gainfully employed in it.
Lost in the fog? How the fraudsters got their morals.
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Corporate wrongdoing is underpinned by a morality that many of us have voted for.