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...Financial columnists typically demand that regulation should be tightened (to tame the spivs and banksters) or relaxed (to lift the jackboot of state oppression from the neck of enterprise)....
...The “banksters” were bailed out and conspicuous consumption was back within a year or two....
...The oldest song is “Banksters”, an electrically charged but rather directionless rocker written in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis....
...O is for oligarchy — the new bankster mafia. P is for pump and dump — crypto's raison d'être. Q is for queue — the laborious wait to shift $0.42 between accounts....
...Related hashtags included #banksters and #toobigtojail, it said....
...The zeitgeisty narrative would be of nice Mr and Mrs Patel or Mr and Mrs Smith taking on the over-bonused banksters. Less pressure on struggling rural post offices helps Tory MPs in the same way....
...- What would Jesus do with banksters? - Why McKinsey thinks alternatives allocations will rise. - Further, further reading....
...- The bankster-psychopath connection? - Time and interest are not so interesting. - Further, further reading....
...What is happening at the DTCC in New York right now has given the Banksters an opportunity to “wash away their sins” and it’s part of a much larger Banking Cabal cover-up....
...We think it’s worth noting that the The Economist is now using the Bankster word in its coverage of the Libor scandal, due to be published in print on Friday, but available in pixelated form here....
...Pulp Finance: Paul suggests that when The Economist starts referring to members of financial industry as ‘banksters’ it’s time to sit up and take notice....
...That has made voters eager for a crackdown on “banksters” similar to the 1930s. A second factor is the growth in the number of agencies that can take action....
...Yves Smith takes aim at The Economist — despite its dramatic “Banksters” cover, she says the newspaper’s prescription is too mild: The dangers of this are obvious....
...Scrolling through the related comments here on FT Alphaville and also elsewhere on FT.com, opinions would seem to fall into three camps: there’s the ‘screw him, he’s just a bankster’ brigade; then there’...
...Elio Lannutti, a senator for the opposition Italy of Values party and head of the Adusbef consumer group, said he hoped the judges would not be shown to have acted under pressure from “banksters”....
...Looks like the paper is itself tainted by this greedy bankster business…...
...Once unthinkable, many pundits see strategic default as just desserts for bailed out “banksters”. This is unethical on many levels....
...They saw their deposits which they had spent a lifetime to build up and protect with their good names confiscated by the Government to pay for the mistakes and dishonesty of every smalltown bankster....
...Goldman is the butt of prime-time TV jokesters, the subject of a Justice Department probe, home of the banksters, a lightening rod for anti-capitalists, a danger to the American public....
...The Andrew Cuomo-prompted give-back of the bulk of the $165m in AIG bonuses appeased the angry, anti-bankster mob, and probably its congressional backers, too, and Wall Street’s warm reception of the latest...
...In Time magazine in 1930, a new derogatory word, “banksters”, was coined, while the New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” column gleefully called the crash “amusing”....
...In the 1930s, bankers were called “banksters” – to rhyme with “gangsters” – as a result of 1920s swindles such as the sale to small investors of Peruvian bonds that became worthless....
...Some 87 per cent of those same shareholders who railed against “banksters” and a compromise solution to the debt problems have voted, according to France’s financial markets authority, to back a deal that...
...Mr Miguet, who last year branded the creditors “banksters” in a populist campaign, now accepts that some dilution of shareholders’ interests is inevitable....
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