Kermit s Bankers

Bonded Bankers

Celebrity Central Bankers

Bankers without Borders

Bankers with Borders

Central Bankers under Siege

The Bankers Capital War

Did the Bankers Do It?

And that's just office workers, bankers.

Why? Because bankers are smart people.

The Temptation of the Central Bankers

The bankers stayed with their loan recipients.

We need more rules for the bankers, God knows.

Is Bankers Pay Really the Root of Financial Evil?

The problem is not caused by human irrationality on the contrary, it arises precisely because bankers are acting rationally. As we know from environmental regulation, preaching common sense or ethics to bankers will not help but changing bankers incentives by, say, requiring higher equity asset ratios would work wonders.

For bankers, we'd be living off the principal, not the interest.

I'm a contaminator for all those children of investment bankers wankers.

And they're starting to dominate lots of professions doctors, lawyers, bankers, accountants.

We certainly can't trust the bankers, and we certainly can't trust the brokers.

Why, then, are so many central bankers so worried about low inflation rates?

There's a banker who created a for profit community bank that encouraged bankers I know this is hard to believe encouraged bankers who worked there to do well by doing good for their low income clients.

Smart and greedy bankers and traders will always find ways to circumvent new rules

To see why, it is important to understand why bankers are paid so much.

The American Bankers Association, worried about the fees that banks would be obliged to pay, vehemently opposed deposit insurance. The State Bankers Association, to which many unit banks belonged, condemned the provisions designed to facilitate state wide branching.

And Ken Sharpe and I certainly know that you need to reign in the bankers.

These folks are the moneyed interests in Iran, the bankers, the oil people, the bazaaries.

A number of the world's leading scientists, engineers, doctors, bankers and sportsmen come from Pakistan.

Bankers want to be so highly leveraged for a simple reason implicit government guarantees mean that they get the upside when things go well, while the downside is someone else s problem. Contrary to bankers claims, this is not a good arrangement for society.

Some, I think some of the bankers who have appear to have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

Canadian Bankers Association, Identity theft an old problem needing a new approach (unpublished), May 2003, p. 5.

Finally, most corporate leaders recognize that they owe a large debt of gratitude to central bankers for the relative tranquility of recent years. Through bold policy experiments, central bankers succeeded in avoiding a global multi year depression and buying time for companies to heal.

All the bankers said to their clients, Get out of the dollars and go and invest somewhere else.

At the same time, their actions and similar actions by other bankers are directly responsible for both the run up in housing prices and the damaging collapse that followed. That collapse has impacted non bankers in many negative ways, including through the loss of more than eight million jobs.

Contrary to bankers claims, increasing equity requirements significantly, and thus safeguarding the financial system s stability, is in the public interest including the interest of most shareholders. By contrast, preserving the status quo, or implementing inadequate regulation, would allow bankers to continue to profit at the expense of others.

Ironically, Glass Steagall itself arose in the 1930 s from commercial bankers efforts to divert regulators attention from other remedies. Small town bankers throughout the country wanted government guaranteed deposit insurance, while stronger big city banks feared that government deposit insurance would put them at a competitive disadvantage.

This message, it was hoped, would stabilize the market so that prices for toxic assets could rise to a level at which bankers might feel comfortable selling them. After all, senior bankers had been claiming that these assets were mispriced, and that pricing them at market levels would penalize the banks unnecessarily.

That is pretty much how most people reacted to the stories about bankers bonuses, when the great crash of 2007 2008 wiped out banks, businesses, shareholders savings, growth, and jobs. There was, as one banker charmingly conceded, a bit of asymmetry between what bankers were being paid and what their banks had lost.

In 2007 2008, the sins of the bankers were visited on the politicians now the reverse is true. Perhaps there is a difference the bankers sins were sins of commission, while the politicians sins repeated failed efforts to produce a solution to match the scale of the problem are sins of omission.

Banks and politics are deeply intertwined in all advanced economies. Diamond discovered that, ultimately, politicians trump bankers at least in the UK.

And yet the illusion continues to entice policymakers. That is why De Gregorio s book should be required reading for all central bankers.

LONDON In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamad tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, broke the world and triggered the Great Depression. Today s central bankers largely share a new conventional wisdom about the benefits of loose monetary policy.

African banks, meanwhile, are rock solid compared to their debt heavy counterparts in the US and Europe. While international bankers went bust by making legions of bad loans, African bankers stuck to earning profits the old fashioned way paying very little to depositors, and earning a big spread by buying guaranteed government debt, which yielded healthy returns.

You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.

You see banks I don't know if there are any bankers over here I apologize in advance but it's the best job in the world.