What bankers hide from us
Small savers ruined by their speculative acrobatics, entrepreneurs running out of credit, employees worried about their jobs: all hold the bankers responsible for the crisis. Witchcraft trial? Did the French fault as much as the Anglo-Saxons? What do they do with our money? Do they serve the economy or their own interest? And, by the way, how much do they really earn? Our investigation
Yes, Mr. President, of course, Mr. President, I will think about it, Mr. President ... "This January 20, the main French bankers are received by Nicolas Sarkozy, in the meeting room on the first floor of the Elysium. "They were sitting next to each other and answering questions from the head of state like schoolchildren," said one participant. That day, the whole of France discovered the faces of the bosses of the big banks in France, those who reign over their money, whose name they often ignored. It took the crisis for these financiers, who never appear and who nevertheless hold the reins of the economy, to unveil themselves. Only the money lords, strangled by the stock market crash, lost their arrogance. Summoned by the Head of State, they left having had to give up their bonuses and their bonuses. Apart from the BNP Paribas leaders, who had taken the lead, the head of state had to punch his fist on the table so that they would give up a small part of their privileges. Incomprehensible autism ...
French banks have fallen from their pedestals and their managers from their chairs. The first was Daniel Bouton, CEO of Société Générale, victim of the 4,9 billion euros of the Kerviel scandal, in January 2008. Then, last fall, it was the managers of Dexia, saved in disaster by the 'State, who were thanked. Even the mutualist networks, reputed to be wiser, were seized by the debauchery of the financial markets.
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Who earns what?
Under the global name of “bankers” there are in fact very contrasting situations. Jobs that watch and envy each other - and the most lucrative of which are not necessarily what you think. "The Obs" went around the place
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