Religion and Finance

The archbishops of Canterbury and York have been having a go at the bankers that apparently caused the collapse of HBOS. Why these people have a right to comment on the morals of those not necessarily subscribed to their own world-view is beyond me.

Eamonn Butler of the Guardian sorts them out in this story. The regulators are to blame and the ban on short-selling is unlikely to have a lasting result. A voice of reason in this issue at last.