Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've never particularly liked bankers.
I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.
I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.
People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people.
Every central banker in the world pays attention to credit growth, but not in the U.S.
We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
It's never been more important for borrowers to arm themselves with knowledge and build sound financial-management skills.
The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.
I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.