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G20 meeting agrees on bonus ‘clawback’
The first post ^ | Sept 7, 09 | Euan Stuart

Posted on 09/07/2009 3:57:48 AM PDT by paudio

Bankers will see their pay-outs curtailed after G20 ministers agreed at the weekend to limit them to sucessful deals.

The groundbreaking agreement has been designed to limit the negative economic effects of deals which go wrong and help the global recovery continue to take hold. The Chancellor Alistair Darling said the new clawback measures would mean financial companies are "focused on long-term sustainability and strength" and would result in staff not being "rewarded for reckless behaviour".

However a plan put forward by the German and French governments to cap bankers' pay was rejected as a result of protests from the UK and US administrations.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefirstpost.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: bank; bonus

1 posted on 09/07/2009 3:57:49 AM PDT by paudio
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To: paudio
Bankers will see their payouts curtailed after G20 ministers
agreed at the weekend to limit them to successful deals.

The cult of losers amazes me. They want to get paid for failure, along with bonuses
and all of the other perks. WOW, I'd love to get a bonus when my customers DON'T buy
our products. What the hell are they thinking...

2 posted on 09/07/2009 4:10:49 AM PDT by ThreePuttinDude (o)(o)
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To: paudio

Let’s have a “clawback” of our liberties in the election next year, voting out every Congressman and Senator who voted for any of BO’s government power grabs.

“Clawback Our Liberty!” should fit on a poster at the TEA parties.


3 posted on 09/07/2009 5:02:54 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: paudio
Regardless of the deal,being profitable over decades,the gov't has no business deciding who gets paid what and where.

Legislators world wide, make a fair salary and suddenly become millionaires over night, let the thieves police themselves before they police us.

4 posted on 09/07/2009 5:10:07 AM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: ThreePuttinDude
WOW, I'd love to get a bonus when my customers DON'T buy our products. What the hell are they thinking...

Like government employees everywhere......'Where's mine?'

5 posted on 09/07/2009 6:03:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (The best is the enemy of the good!)
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To: ThreePuttinDude

“However a plan put forward by the German and French governments to cap bankers’ pay was rejected as a result of protests from the UK and US administrations.”

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??????????? How does this fit in with the administration’s claims of limiting executive compensation on Wall Street, etc.?


6 posted on 09/07/2009 6:54:30 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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This little guy in the White House is sooo out of his league
he’s showing just how inexperienced he really is.

The teleprompter has a hard time remembering what he says...LOL


7 posted on 09/07/2009 7:02:22 AM PDT by ThreePuttinDude (o)(o)
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To: paudio

“Bankers will see their pay-outs curtailed after G20 ministers agreed at the weekend to limit them to sucessful deals. “

It’s none of the US government’s business to decide how much a company pays it’s employees.
And the G20 doesn’t make law in this nation; yet..


8 posted on 09/07/2009 7:02:31 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Just say no to Soylent Green health care)
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To: AFPhys

Must be they didn’t go along with our administration’s demand for a ‘Goldman exception’.


9 posted on 09/07/2009 7:45:06 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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