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Those behind market crisis should be punished: Sarkozy - Yahoo! News
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Those responsible for the crisis that has swept global financial markets should be punished, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said overnight in his first reaction to the latest bout of economic turmoil. In an acceptance speech at an award ceremony attended by U.S. and ...
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Should we prosecute those who caused this economic problem?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — As it stands today, we have given a free pass to those CEOs who profited enormously and then were pushed out, with hundreds of millions. How can we watch our once vibrant economy fall apart like this, forcing an expensive bailout (and likely higher taxes, reduction in standard of living and even more cutbacks) and then do nothing? These are the same people who complained about "welfare mamas" so again, let them live by their own rules. Regardless of his other positions, Sarkozy is not wrong on this. ...

Sarkozy Wants People Responsible For Market Crisis To Be Punished -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... , "That makes no sense. It's sound judgment that he lacks."Translation: "I won't hurt my pals from when I was running Goldman Sachs." VERSE CASE SCENARIO Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, " ...

The World Whirls The Ailing Streets
All articles at Blogcritics — ... become Secretary General over the world's choice (Ban Ki-moon, that is) had this to say: We need a new understanding on business ethics and governance, with more compassion and less uncritical faith in the magic of markets. President Luiz In cio Lula da Silva of Brazil and German Chancellor Angela Merkel made remarks critical of George W Bush's lack of economic stewardship. The foreign anger is so palpable that Bush's French Clone, President Nicolas Sarkozy, is insisting that all of the usual suspects be rounded up for punishment. ...

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