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Article: Banks need to cool it as anger grows
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2009
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Not wanting to be outdone by Lord "Tax 'Em" Turner, Gordon Brown
has now decided he has to join in with the bonus bashing too. Of
course, when you look beyond the headlines, it becomes clear that,
amid all the noise and the fuss and the desperate desire to pass the
buck on to someone else, they are saying much the same thing. Which
is that there should be international action to rein in the
recidivists, who can't seem to shake their addiction to seven-
figure payouts for doing well at financial roulette.
Of course, it is terribly easy to talk tough and make all sorts
of bold promises when that little caveat is attached to whatever you
say. Funnily enough, "international action" is ...