2. Dear chief executives:
Congratulations. We are writing to you to say how delighted we are that most of you have reported such good profits from investment banking in the second quarter. We are not among those who bash banks because they are doing well. As your regulators, we want you to make healthy profits so you are strong enough to weather any new shocks.
We do, however, notice that many of you have been setting aside large bonus pots for your staff. Some of you have been accruing compensation at a rate of several hundred thousand dollars per employee — and that includes the secretaries. Bonuses planned for the bigwigs are back in the millions.
You don’t need us to tell you that this is causing a political storm. Voters cannot understand how the bankers who helped cause the crisis are going to cash in just months after taxpayers rode to their rescue and when ordinary people are still suffering from rising unemployment.
- A Letter on Bonuses and Tin Ears, Dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com, August 6, 2009.
3. There will no effective foreign policy till the small countries accept that only the bigwigs are counting in world policy.
Just look at Reuters that covers world policy daily. Do you remember any mentioning of the Irish, Dutch, Hungarian prime minister’s remarks on North Korea, Iran or the Middle East?
What they cover is the French, the British and German opinions and announcements. They are the ones who are counting.
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