All of which explains what some would see as the most significant watering down by the chancellor of the recommendations to reform banks that George Osborne received last year from the Independent Commission on Banking, chaired by Sir John Vickers.
Chancellor George Osborne should resist pressure from banks to reverse planned reforms of the financial sector, consumer group Which? has said.
The George Mason group concludes that investment banks tip trading clients about the upcoming downgrades, giving them a chance to put on bearish trades and profit from the inevitable stock decline.
He voted, too, for TARP, a bill called for by George W. Bush that bailed out banks when the entire financial system seemed on the verge of collapse as 90 other Republicans did.
Added to the likes of billionaire investors George Soros and John Paulson, the central banks of emerging markets including China, India, and even the oil producers, are retail investors.
In its report, the OECD also backed Chancellor George Osborne's decision to ring-fence banks' retail and investment arms.
George Cooper is the author of The Origin of Financial Crises: Central Banks, Credit Bubbles and the Efficient Market Fallacy.
The huge TARP bill, which set up a fund to save America's banks, passed, even though it came at the end of George Bush's presidency.
Is there any likelihood however that George Osborne and the Treasury would indemnify the Bank of England and all the banks against losses on a certain portion of their business lending, so that the banks could lend to younger and more ambitious companies without exposing their owners to the losses?
And further nationalisation of these vast banks was the last thing on the wish-list of the Chancellor, George Osborne.
My very strong sense however is that George Osborne at the Treasury is taking a rather less aggressive approach to the negotiations with banks.
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None of this is trivial - not least because George Osborne's banking policies, which include putting a ring-fence around retail banks and giving the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee the power to vary banks' capital ratios, are out of step with what most of the eurozone wants and plans.
When in 2006 the Republicans lost control of Congress, George W. Bush responded by embracing the Democrats' policies on everything from Iran to mortgage banks.
Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has discussed the issue of bank lending - or the reported lack of it - with representatives from the main banks, as well as the Governor of the Bank of England and the Chancellor George Osborne.
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Then, too, the story has passed from the gold gurus like Frank Giustra, and the central banks of China, India and Russia, among others, to the hedge fund giants like George Soros and John Paulson, among others, to mutual fund groups like US Global Resources to pension funds, wealthy families.
The George W. Bush era saw record-breaking federal generosity to military contractors, farmers, Medicare beneficiaries, banks, and other groups with a history of voting Republican.
"They probably have a better image than banks do, while in store branches could be much more convenient for consumers, " said Fred George, an analyst at Seymour Pierce in London.
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, had earlier said that all UK credit and financial institutions had to cease trading with Iran's banks from Monday afternoon.
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