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This didn't get the press attention that it deserves. Those MPs may be crooks, but expenses didn't put us all out of work like this little blunder helped to achieve.
Those muppets that call themselves economists and financial experts who blame human error for not spotting the biggest bubble in history have been rewarded for failure.
"Bank watchdog ‘failures’ pocket £20m in bonuses
STAFF at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) who presided over the near failure of the banking system were last month awarded bonuses of £19.7m – a 40% increase on the previous year.
News of their rewards coincides with the disclosure that the FSA was among banking regulators who identified Northern Rock as the weak link in the banking system in 2004 – three years before its collapse.
One FSA official was paid an award of £90,000 in April and 10 staff received bonuses of £50,000 or more, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show. The 2,500 staff at the City watchdog were on average paid bonuses of nearly £8,000 in April.
The information also disclosed that 174 of its staff now receive a six-figure salary – and, on average, these FSA executives each received a bonus of £22,485. Only three of these high earners failed to receive any bonus."... continued
This didn't get the press attention that it deserves. Those MPs may be crooks, but expenses didn't put us all out of work like this little blunder helped to achieve.
Those muppets that call themselves economists and financial experts who blame human error for not spotting the biggest bubble in history have been rewarded for failure.
"Bank watchdog ‘failures’ pocket £20m in bonuses
STAFF at the Financial Services Authority (FSA) who presided over the near failure of the banking system were last month awarded bonuses of £19.7m – a 40% increase on the previous year.
News of their rewards coincides with the disclosure that the FSA was among banking regulators who identified Northern Rock as the weak link in the banking system in 2004 – three years before its collapse.
One FSA official was paid an award of £90,000 in April and 10 staff received bonuses of £50,000 or more, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show. The 2,500 staff at the City watchdog were on average paid bonuses of nearly £8,000 in April.
The information also disclosed that 174 of its staff now receive a six-figure salary – and, on average, these FSA executives each received a bonus of £22,485. Only three of these high earners failed to receive any bonus."... continued
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