Errr, uuuh, no Mr. Williams, "the number one priority of government" is not the "creation of new employment".
Premature Fed pullback could "short-circuit" recovery: Bernanke
Reuters ^ | 3-2-2013 | Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
"We pay special attention to developments at the largest, most complex financial firms," Bernanke said.
"He argued banks had gone some way toward repairing their balance sheets since the financial crisis. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported this week that bank profits rose in 2012 to their highest levels since 2006, the year before the subprime mortgage meltdown gained momentum."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992849/posts
.."the largest, most complex financial firms"...
......guess who?
Now consider insurance CEOs in light of "Obamacare":
Compensation for most health plan CEOs rose in 2011 to $87 million in total
By Emily Berry Posted May 31, 2012
"In most cases, pay went up along with company income. The highest-paid executive made 94 times the average compensation level of primary care physicians."
http://www.amednews.com/article/20120531/business/305319997/8/
The Communists took over the means of production in Russia, while in America, the "paper money" corporations have taken over the government and our lives. Doesn't the Dow look great right now?
The top six banks and their executives are in threesome with the Federal Reserve, and the US Government.
M&T is a middle-tier bank who did not need TARP and still makes its money by taking deposits and making loans to business and consumers based on credit worthiness. In other words - a “normal” bank. They were not involved in the housing bubble nor do they trade in derivatives that hit the likes of AIG and Citi
If I were the M&T CEO, I would be angry too, because the Gov’t and FED have basically created an exclusive “Too Big to Fail” club.
In other words, if he can't get more, they shouldn't get more.
Smart man. He can read the tea leaves. Or at least could figure out where the wind was blowing when the Fake White Indian took her Senate seat. Time to get on the right side before some wannabe despot gets the pitchfork mobs all fired up.