By far the most cheering thing in this newspaper last week was a letter from Robert Pickering, the man who used to run Cazenove. In it, he took a potshot at Antony Jenkins, the Barclays boss, for trotting out the dreary old cliché of the death spiral to justify his bankers’ bonuses. There is absolutely no need, Mr Pickering pointed out, to pay ever bigger sums to prevent investment bankers from quitting – no bank ever went under because its people got poached. Bankers come and go and the world goes on turning.
英國《金融時報》不久前刊登的一封來信令人拍手稱快，寫信者是曾執掌嘉誠(Cazenove)的羅伯特•皮克林(Robert Pickering)。皮克林在信中對巴克萊(Barclays)的老大安東尼•詹金斯(Antony Jenkins)意外發難，原因是後者隨手拎出「死亡螺旋」的老套說法，來爲給銀行家發放高額獎金辯護。皮克林指出，通過支付越來越高的薪酬來預防投資銀行家離職，是完全沒有必要的——從來沒有哪家銀行因爲員工被挖而破產。銀行家們來來去去，世界依然在運轉。
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