# £3.5 billion extra? What the papers don’t tell you…

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/01/27/35-billion-extra-what-papers-dont-tell-you/
- Published: 2008-01-27T15:14:15+00:00
- Author: John Baguley

**Puzzle number one: Our Gallic hero didn’t set the money on fire, so it went somewhere.**

If, as claimed, it [contributed to stock market falls](https://www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7208439.stm);
why didn’t its re-appearance in someone else’s pocket set up an equal an opposite
rise in stock market prices?

Puzzle number two: Rogue traders are rogues because they lose shed loads of dosh,
but [I’m sure there are hidden, but successful traders out there](https://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/27/europeanbanks.marketturmoil)
making zillions who fess up and are quietly forgiven.

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So, what has all this to do with fundraising? Well, why are we all bothering with
T-shirts when we should be into derivatives etc? Any charity whose income comes 
from the profits of such financial services is going to be able to really ‘make 
a difference’ on a scale rarely seen before. Okay the risk is greater, but I for
one would like to see a much greater risk / reward ratio in charity fundraising,
because at present we are only making a pootling difference to most serious problems.

Secondly – anyone got the address of a successful rogue? Contact John Baguley asap.

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