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Nouriel Roubini und Nassim Taleb (der Autor des Buches “Der Schwarze Schwan” — Untertitel: “Die Macht höchst unwahrscheinlicher Ereignisse”) haben eine neue Facebook-Gruppe gegründet — ein “J’accuse” („Ich klage an“) an die Adresse von Bankern, die trotz wahnsinniger Verluste und monströser Verantwortungslosigkeit (oder zumindest: Unfähigkeit) noch die Frechheit haben, sich Bonuszahlungen in zweistelliger Milliardenhöhe auszuzahlen. Und dies geschieht zur gleichen Zeit, als die Steuerzahler mit gigantischen Hilfspaketen die Banken, die ebendiese Manager leiten, buchstäblich retten müssen.

Der Aufruf von Roubini und Nassim richtet sich ganz bestimmt auch an die US-Administration und fordert sie auf, diesen unerträglichen Zustand zu unterbinden, die Bonuszahlungen zurückzuverlangen und den Moral Hazard soweit wie nur möglich zu begrenzen.

Das “Mission-Statement”:

At Davos 2009, one of the 2 horsemen [Nouriel and Nassim] was quoted as saying that people like Robert Rubin, who received over $100 million serving as chairman of New York-based Citigroup Inc.’s executive committee, need to be punished for their failure to understand the risks their institutions were taking. He said that unless Rubin and others like him are made to mandatorily return their bonuses or are given some other punishment, the system that regrettably emerges is one “in which it’s the worst of capitalism and socialism, a situation in which profits were privatized and losses were socialized. We taxpayers have the worst.”

“This will stand as the biggest government-sponsored scam in history”. Bankers are way ahead; they MISPREPRESENTED their risks; the small guy is paying the price.

We cannot live in a society without accountability.

Note: Obama is “reducing” future bonuses after the recent scandal (they used the bailout money to pay themselves). This is outrageously insufficient. We need PAST bonuses to be returned to society –so we stop the cycle of moral hazard.

[Note: there are laws that make IRRESPONSIBLE persons in corporations liable for their sins against the public.]

[Note: the only country that clawed back bonuses so far is Switzerland --the mechanism is certainly easy to implement].

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