The day when voters would be reassured that never again would they have to foot the bill for the bankers' failures.

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The British Bankers' Association denied lobbying Mr Osborne and said banks appreciated the need for the bill.

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Bankers made a killing on the housing market in the 2000s and then left working people holding the bill when the market crashed, with taxpayer-funded bank bailouts and budget cuts to public services.

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With the start of testimony, government prosecutors began building a case against two bankers accused of siphoning money from their own financial institution to finance political contributions to then-Gov. Bill Clinton.

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Under measures contained in the Financial Services Bill, which MPs debated on 30 November 2009, the FSA will be given powers to curtail bankers' pay and bonuses.

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Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Wealth Management, however, said he expects the central bankers to wait and see how the bailout and the economy in general, evolve.

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As the specter of sovereign default lurches towards Spain, it increasingly appears that German taxpayers will be footing most of the bill for the profligacy of their continental cousins, and I suspect that more than a few American central bankers are now basking in that most German of emotions, schadenfreude.

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