No financial institution has escaped damage from the turmoil that rocked the credit markets in July and August as problems in the subprime mortgage market widened.
Andy Haldane, the bank's chief economist, said automation posed a risk to almost half those employed in the UK and that a "third machine age" would hollow out the labour market, widening the gap between rich and poor.
JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are expected to report another strong quarter, largely because trading profits have soared with the stock market, widening the performance gap with their peers and putting their bankers on track for big bonuses this year.
Like computers before them, prices of small satellites could be expected to tumble and performance to rise remorselessly as the market widened from government agencies to include companies and universities, and then wider still to include small communities and co-operatives, and finally to embrace even wealthy individuals.
Measured by an index created at the OECD, the gap between the most and least liberal services markets widened in the 1980s and into the 1990s.
At one stage, the difference in the price at which the UK and Germany borrow in the City's money markets widened to the highest level in 12 years.
Academics, of course, are managers, but the Hesa definition of manager is the new type of non-academic professional involved in finance, marketing, widening participation, human resources, student services, quality assurance and so on.
Regional integration remains the key strategy that will enable African governments to accelerate the transformation of their fragmented small economies, expand their markets, widen the region's economic space, and reap the benefits of economies of scale for production and trade, thereby maximizing the welfare of their nations.
Always an imprecise science, the allocation of shiny statuettes seems ever sillier as the gap between Golden Globe or Oscar nominees and the movie market steadily widens.
