The intricacies of restructuring assets and saving banks can be hard even for the experts to understand.
"It is noticeable that we move at different speeds depending on whether it's about saving banks or calming nervous financial markets, or whether it's about defending citizens against these financial markets by regulating, " he said.
You can be sure that when I was running for this office, things like saving the banks and rescuing auto companies were not on my to-do list.
The Commission says this would ease funding pressures on other areas of the EU's budget, however Mr Remek said the amount of money required for GMES "is quite low compared to the amount we are prepared to spend on saving the banks".
" He has also approved low-budget dramas including December's "Saving Mr. Banks, " about the making of Disney's "Mary Poppins.
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Walt Disney animated feature, a Star Wars entry, and the offhand Disney-specific franchise entry (think Pirates of the Caribbean 5, coming summer 2015) means that Disney will have an annual slate of almost predetermined blockbusters without even breaking a sweat, which in turn will give them the financial safety net to withstand the periodic John Carter and make occasional non-tent poles like the upcoming Saving Mr. Banks.
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Displaying great flexibility, Isaac decided to shutter some banks, while saving others.
The ring-fence structure makes a distinction between the bits of banking that need saving (deposit-taking banks, payment systems and the like) and the bits that do not (bonus-gorging investment bankers).
It was because of this reliance on deposits, which have reached about four times the size of Cyprus's economy, that the euro zone and the IMF insisted that bank-account holders contribute to the cost of saving the country and its banks.
Fellow bailout recipients like Ireland -- which had to accept a full country bailout for its bust banks -- may ask for their terms to be reviewed, while Spain could clash with other countries over which banks are worth saving and which aren't.
Commercial paper became the rage in the 1960s as a means of borrowing short-term money and saving interest costs by bypassing the banks.
However, if this is what a Compliance program looks like, banks would do better saving the money on training and should instead invest in Public Relations.
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Many see Greece as little more than a protectorate of the EU. It is widely believed that the purpose of the bailout was less about helping Greece and more about saving the euro and protecting international banks from a default.
To be fair, none of the central banks realized that even the saving grace of spreading the risk of new products and innovations (like credit default swaps) would not of themselves prevent those who had been too optimistic from suddenly turning pessimistic.
It clinched a life-saving financing agreement earlier this month with its banks.
But the danger is that central banks inflate another credit bubble, saving the economy from disaster in the short term but raising the stakes still further when the next crisis comes around.
Banks still act well, and could be the saving grace for this market.
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So we are really asked to bail out banks, but given that banks are hated so much we are told that we are saving the Club Med countries and the European Monetary Union.
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Paying over the odds for bad loans could be a way quietly to recapitalise the banks, so long as it was accompanied by hard decisions about saving those that are the least bad and closing the worst.
Therefore, if bundling has not been cost saving but has, in fact, been a device conceived by global custodial banks to enhance their profits though hidden and excessive fees, self-dealing and other forms of wrongdoing, then taxpayers, as well as participants in the plans, have paid the price.
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Low or negative real interest rates on deposits, including saving accounts, provides a low-cost source of funding for state-owned banks.
Reprivatisation of bank lending should proceed naturally as commercial banks offer positive nominal interest rates and bid funds away from the postal saving system.
Deborah Schuler, vice president of the Banking Group of Moody's Asia Pacific, says banks all across Asia were guilty of plowing money back into loans rather than saving their capital for a rainy day.
That's partly because capital has taken such a large share of profits for so many years that the pendulum is bound to swing back and partly because, having just given trillions of dollars to the banks, politicians will be under pressure to put vast amounts of money into saving jobs.
No matter that the deal would weld the country's fourth and fifth biggest banks, by assets, into its biggest retail-banking outfit: ministers argued correctly that saving the financial system was more important than fussing about competition.
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