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She can reduce someone to a few simple stats: height, weight, education, parentage and bank balance.

By 2007, no-one knew exactly where these grenades were hidden in bank balance sheets, so they all stopped lending to each other – which saw the whole global financial system seize up.

I found that with good hustling skills a Banksied homeowner might see their bank balance expanded, but it's not an easy process.

This will certainly help pay some of those bills, and you won't see the impact directly until you look at your bank balance in the coming weeks.

The new year in politics starts with the bang of a billionaire with a bigger mouth than his bank balance.