Reply #17: Check out the newest 7/16/09 Barclay Board change

[InkAddict]

http://group.barclays.com/Investor-Relations/News

Reuben Jeffery III will join the Boards of Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC, as
a non-executive Director, with immediate effect. Reuben Jeffery is a Senior
Adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington, D.C.
and previously served in the US government as Under Secretary of State for
Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs. Prior to joining the Department of
State, Mr Jeffery was the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission and before that held a number of positions in US government
service. Mr Jeffery spent eighteen years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was
managing partner of Goldman Sachs in Paris (1997-2001) and of the firm’s
European Financial Institutions Group in London (1992-1997).


Otherwise: WOW - 10.5% on $3B for a couple weeks. Is this the equivalent of bankers' PayDay lending? Stalling the inevitable