# The LIBOR scandal: The rotten heart of finance

<http://www.economist.com/node/21558281>

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## What Jamie wrote

Oh look, yet another place where bankers had self-serving practices that helped them make more money at the expense of everyone else.  <blockquote> What may still seem to many to be a parochial affair involving Barclays, a 300-year-old British bank, rigging an obscure number, is beginning to assume global significance. The number that the traders were toying with determines the prices that people and corporations around the world pay for loans or receive for their savings. It is used as a benchmark to set payments on about $800 trillion-worth of financial instruments, ranging from complex interest-rate derivatives to simple mortgages. The number determines the global flow of billions of dollars each year. Yet it turns out to have been flawed. </blockquote>

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