Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes?

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David Boyle. Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes?

Broke. Who Killed the Middle Classes? DAVID BOYLE

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Dedication

Prologue

1. The scene of the crime

Middle Classes in Figures

The New Middle-Class-Values Dictionary

Dispatches from the Frontline

2. The first clue: the staggering house-price escalator

Middle Classes in Figures

The New Middle-Class-Values Dictionary

Dispatches from the Frontline

3. The second clue: the strange case of the disappearing banks

Middle Classes in Figures

The New Middle-Class-Values Dictionary

Dispatches from the Frontline

4. The third clue: the corrosive explosion of finance

Middle Classes in Figures

The New Middle-Class-Values Dictionary

Dispatches from the Frontline

5. The fourth clue: the dog that didn’t bark

Middle Classes in Figures

The New Middle-Class-Values Dictionary

Dispatches from the Frontline

6. The fifth clue: the great education panic

Middle Classes in Figures

The New Middle-Class-Values Dictionary

Dispatches from the Frontline

7. The sixth clue: the strange case of the disappearing professionals

Middle Classes in Figures

The New Middle-Class-Values Dictionary

Dispatches from the Frontline

8. Following the clues, unmasking the villains

Afterword to the Paperback EditionThe Year Everything Changed: 2013

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Notes. 1 The scene of the crime

2 The first clue: the staggering house-price escalator

3 The second clue: the strange case of the disappearing banks

4 The third clue: the corrosive explosion of finance

5 The fourth clue: the dog that didn’t bark

6 The fifth clue: the great education panic

7 The sixth clue: the strange case of the disappearing professionals

8 Following the clues, unmasking the villains

Afterword to the Paperback Edition – The Year Everything Changed: 2013

Acknowledgements

About the Author

By the Same Author

About the Publisher

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Within eighteen months there were more than twenty-five action groups, and Stockwell was involved in many of them. At one meeting of the activists, there was a stand-up row between two prominent Names. Stockwell, towering over both of them, told them to sit down and shut up. He attributes to this the decision to ask him to chair the meeting, which led him to chairing the Lloyd’s Names Association and made him the obvious choice to chair Lloyd’s Open Years Working Party, Lloyd’s own attempt to hammer out a compromise.

Either way, it put him at the heart of a whirlwind. The phone rang at home all the time, and his young children had to learn how to deal with the outpourings of fear and betrayal that came down the line.

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