In Prudent Mood

Everything has its price, and even a pretext for sacking people in large numbers may occasionally display some small operational disadvantage. According to a major rating agency, the gains made by banks in the rush to infoslop submersion may potentially be undermined by losses from outages, price gouging, and damaged consumer confidence. The agency went so far as to point out the perils of relying too much on a small number of firms, for all the world as if capitalist commerce had some sort of business with rational competition on a level playing field. Fortunately, an infallible safeguard is at hand in the form of substantial investment, which translates into Oldspeak as another bung from the taxpayer when things go wrong.