Barack Obama was absolutely right a week ago when he demanded that the compensation of the executives, managers and traders at the failed financial institutions that received bail-out cash be scrutinised by a new “oversight council”. He was right because these are the people who saddled the rest of us with a staggering $2,800bn (€1,990bn, £1,690bn) of trading and credit losses, and yet wanted to be paid as if everything was just swell.
美國總統巴拉克•歐巴馬(Barack Obama)近期提出,接受政府紓困的金融機構的高階主管、經理和交易員的薪酬,必須由新成立的「監管委員會」加以審覈。這絕對是正確之舉,原因在於,正是上述人士令我們承受了鉅額虧損——交易和信貸虧損總計達到驚人的2.8兆美元——而他們卻想照常領薪,彷彿形勢依然大好。
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