http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/03/speaking-up-for-big-banks/ Politics and policy from inside Washington Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/03/speaking-up-for-big-banks/comment-page-1/#comment-3697 Benny Acosta Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:50:22 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=2496#comment-3697 "Big banks efficiently facilitate cross-border trade and investment on a global scale, resulting in benefits that have consistently accrued to consumers and improved standards of living for people in all markets"Where are the benefits you speak of? Do you mean the technologies and conveniences created by business capitalized by the banks? This is not benefit. So we have nice toys. What's the value in that if you have to spend your life trying to keep from loosing what you have?Looking around the world right now where do you see this so called "benefit"? The people have been screwed by their leaders and the merchants. Even this very article only talks of money as a benefit. People are getting evicted from their homes. People are going sick and dieing because their insurance plan doesn't cover X treatment.Yeah.... it's great over here. “Big banks efficiently facilitate cross-border trade and investment on a global scale, resulting in benefits that have consistently accrued to consumers and improved standards of living for people in all markets”Where are the benefits you speak of? Do you mean the technologies and conveniences created by business capitalized by the banks? This is not benefit. So we have nice toys. What’s the value in that if you have to spend your life trying to keep from loosing what you have?Looking around the world right now where do you see this so called “benefit”? The people have been screwed by their leaders and the merchants. Even this very article only talks of money as a benefit. People are getting evicted from their homes. People are going sick and dieing because their insurance plan doesn’t cover X treatment.Yeah…. it’s great over here.

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/11/03/speaking-up-for-big-banks/comment-page-1/#comment-3688 StevenKs Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:04:01 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=2496#comment-3688 Just how have large, complex financial institutions benefitted anyone except themselves, their lobbyists & select senators & rep's over the last decade? Just how have large, complex financial institutions benefitted anyone except themselves, their lobbyists & select senators & rep’s over the last decade?

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