Editorial: You've got banks wrong

June 01, 2009

No one is gloating over the bankers that lost their jobs

During the research for this year's Bankers' Counsel Poll, one respondent told me the story of going to a charity auction at the end of last year. "The compere had a whole set worked out around bankers getting fired and the clamp down on bonuses. It went down like a lead balloon. He couldn't have got the tone more wrong."

The anecdote was meant to illustrate how much the media and others have...

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