Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Messy Capitalism - Bankers Behaving Badly (Forbes)

Messy Capitalism

Is The Financial Sector Gobbling Up The U.S.' Would-Be Entrepreneurs?

Carl Schramm, 04.13.11, 06:00 AM EDT

When the financial sector grows too large, it drains talent from entrepreneurial ventures.

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Meet a banker today, and you can be certain that within minutes he will be complaining about the epidemic of "banker bashing." How unfair it is of politicians and media populists to blame the financial industry for the Great Recession. Don't they understand what it is the bankers bring to an economy? Not just all the financial products, which grease the wheels of global business, but also all those jobs and all that wealth.
Take a drive through Greenwich, Conn., the home of the hedge fund industry, and see for yourself what a formidable service the financial sector has done for the town's roofers, pool builders and hedge trimmers.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Michael Huke a senior manager at Lloyds Bank HQ Bristol. Record of his nefarious activities, each reported to Lloyds Bank and Avon and Somerset police where applicable, NO action has been taken by either party (to date). Please view ‘Michael Huke’ and ‘Banker Behaving Badly’ on YouTube and witness his despicable conduct, (featured on TV documentary released soon).
1. CCTV of Michael Huke shouting abuse and videoing his neighbours within their premises.
2. Assaulting neighbours physically and verbally, captured on CCTV and audio.
3. Offensive and unlawful TEXTs sent by Michael Huke…….. a) TEXT ‘My (Lloyds Bank) secretary gives me a blow job when I’m allocating bonuses’
b) TEXT ‘Kompany and Fernandinho (Manchester City footballers) are Northern black c*nts’.
c) TEXT ‘Antonio Horta Osario (Lloyds Bank CEO) has no balls because he was off sick at the ‘Priory’ for 6 months suffering from a nervous breakdown.
d) TEXT claiming ‘He would wind up 2 occupiers from the commercial site opposite his house (that he wanted gone) so much, he would let them Twat him and then get them done’. Plus more TEXTs of a similar grossly offensive nature.
4. When asked by friends of the wealth of his landowner neighbour (that he was in conflict with), he answered ‘neither the landlord or his wife bank with Lloyds Banking Group and never have had accounts with us’. Within his ‘position of trust’ how did he determine that information, had they banked with Lloyds he would surely have probed their accounts?
5. He was prosecuted, when caught on covert CCTV, watching his dog defecate outside a neighbour’s property and not clear it up.
6. He signed an ABC (Acceptable Behaviour Contract) issued to him by South Gloucestershire Council ASBO team and the police.
7. Michael Huke received a solicitor’s letter from the owner of the commercial site opposite, warning of legal proceedings if he trespassed on the site again. He confided he would lose his job at Lloyds Bank if that happened, he hasn’t trespassed
8. He Attacked a 71 year old man because he’d parked briefly on the road outside his house; captured on CCTV, video/audio recorded and independently witnessed (view on YouTube).
9. The 71 year old victim of the attack and one of the witness’s (who’d videoed the attack) were arrested and held in custody, several months after the video of the attack had been uploaded onto YouTube, (by persons unknown), charged with uploading the video, (which is factual and not menacing in character) because it discredited Michael Huke in front of his staff and jeopardised his job at Lloyds Bank HQ Bristol. No charge was pursued. This arrest was almost certainly influenced by Lloyds Banking Group, Freemasons, a police sergeant friend who lives nearby or corrupt members of Avon and Somerset Police, possibly a combination of them all.
These incidents plus many more have taken place over a 3 year period; all reported to Lloyds Banking Group, yet Michael Huke is still clinging to his job at Lloyds Bank?
You’re views, opinions and advice would be helpful and greatly appreciated.