At last, bankers are paying the price for their bailouts – in Ireland, at least.
Banks and bankers are now potential targets for the Real IRA, leaders of the dissident republican terror group have warned in an exclusive interview with the Guardian.
The area where I live, moreover, is dramatically mixed, bankers shoving up next to council tenants.
Greece, and now all of Europe, are suffering because Europe is still being run by and for bankers who simply want their money back.
For Crumb and Roy Sebag, the founders of BitGold Inc, whatever the world's politicians and central bankers choose to do about gold and the dollar (or gold and the Euro, or gold and the yen) is interesting, but irrelevant to their own business plans.
He is one of the three Barclays investment bankers whose pay is being published following the departure of Rich Ricci, who was handed £17.6m a year ago.
Investors will vote on the pay policies at next month's annual meeting and debate is already raging about whether to back the rewards, which Jenkins has argued are needed to retain top investment bankers.
The bankers and the hedge fund owners did well out of QE, but the side-effect of footloose money searching the globe for high yields was higher food and fuel prices.
Similar handouts, which have become known in the City as "allowances", will be given to about 1,000 staff at Barclays and some 75 bankers at Lloyds.
But that is the given name of the inventor of Bitcoin, the digital currency that has gone from a nerd's delight in 2009 to something taken seriously by central bankers in 2013, and whose notional value passed $1,000 a "coin" in November.
They could start with a few property tycoons and top bankers being dragged through the Irish courts in handcuffs.
