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johnny9fingers ([personal profile] johnny9fingers) wrote2010-04-20 07:09 pm

Aha..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8633455.stm

So the IMF are going to push for a tax on all banks, hedge funds, and other financial institutions to pay for future bail-outs.

Finally someone is going to put a lighted cigarette end to the leech. Will no-one speak up for the poor Hirudinae?

[identity profile] torpidai.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
So th IMF are going to push for a tax on all banks, hedge funds, and other financial institutions to pay for future bail-outs

So they should after that Greece fiasco has cost blighty £10 for every man-woman and child and we've already re-mortgaged our kids future for our own banks frauds errors in accounting. Bring back 10% interest rates for savers, let the affluent and stupid foot the bill.

[identity profile] winterlion.livejournal.com 2010-04-21 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
mmm since they're the prime culprits in the mess - it seems fitting.