It is extremely rare for breaking news about the seemingly dry domain of banking or economics to stop a busy newsroom in full flow, to make journalists stop and stare at the television screens on the wall. But during the financial crisis that raged from 2007 - ten years ago this month - there were too many such moments of sudden quietening.
Those of us watching could not know then that the aftershocks of the crisis would still be rippling out a decade later - in populism, stagnant wages and resentment of authority.
What famously began with the credit crunch of August 2007, built up over the course of more than a year until RBS almost went bust in October 2008.
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