I remarked that he had not read the Financial Times this morning.
'Never do,' he told me. I was surprised. He was a banker after all.
'Can't understand it,' he explained. 'It's too full of economic theory.'
I asked him why he bought it and carried it about under his arm. He explained that it was part of the uniform. He said it took him thirty years to understand Keynes's economics and just when he'd finally got the hang of it everyone started getting hooked on those new-fangled monetarist ideas.
Jim Hacker discovers the truth about bankers.
The Complete Yes Minister by Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay
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