Obama to Banks: It’s Payback Time
On Monday at the White House, President Barack Obama reminded a group of big banking honchos (or "fat cats," as he called them Sunday) about last year's bailout and advised them to get busy helping the taxpayers who helped with their recovery. Well, good luck with that one.
On Monday at the White House, President Barack Obama reminded a group of big banking honchos (or “fat cats,” as he called them Sunday) about last year’s bailout and advised them to get busy helping the taxpayers who helped with their recovery. Well, good luck with that one. –KA
WAIT, BEFORE YOU GO…BBC:
[The president] said US banks had received extraordinary assistance and demanded they show extraordinary commitment to rebuild the US economy.
[…] Monday’s meeting with executives from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, among others, came a day after the president said he had not run for office to help out “a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street”.
‘Willing to fight’
In comments to reporters at the White House after the talks, Mr Obama criticised lobbyists for trying to stall his administration’s reform of the financial services sector.
And he warned that if they were “willing to fight common-sense consumer protection, that’s a fight I’m willing to have”.
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Lessons learned from the 2008 financial crisis show that taxpayer-funded blank checks to institutions do nothing to help those struggling
If the president wants the federal government to be able to borrow cheaply, there are far better options than negative interest rates.
"I can think of no matter of 'intense public interest' about which 'the American people deserve the details' than the issue of what precisely happened to the criminal referrals that followed the 2008 crash."
Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union presages perhaps another global financial meltdown. Banks will again demand massive bailouts. We will be forced to again swallow austerity measures, and there will be a continued decline in living standards.
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