Passing up the chance to make a few jokes about his cleanliness makes the chairman a tad suspicious
"Why haven't we talked about market cleanliness recently?" asked the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBluePlanet suspiciously as we enjoyed a pint or two of Clougherty's Fist at The Rock. "I'm not sure I know the answer to that question," I replied. "What are you talking about?" "Market cleanliness," replied the chairman - rather pointlessly, I thought. "Look, it's been two months since the FSA published the results of its latest work to measure the cleanliness of UK financial markets and you haven't mentioned it once. Normally you'd be using it as a chance to ...
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