In answering the Republican criticism, some Democrats also pointed to a meeting Mr. McConnell and Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, attended with hedge fund managers last week in New York City as evidence they were on the side of bankers.
One outcome is that when journalists meet senior bankers in the context of an authorised interview in the presence of a PR officer, those journalists may get to see a side of that banker that is, shall we say, slightly one-sided?
Its populist instincts have been on the right side of the bankers' pay story and it has a couple of pro-consumer stories (one about bank fees) in today's edition.
General rule is your dad is either voting on the side of the bankers or the miners, and he has been doing so since the 1980s.
Their election will tip the balance far onto the side of the bankers and hedge fund managers who did so much to rob Americans of the dreams for a better future.
General rule is your dad is either voting on the side of either the bankers or the miners, and he has been doing so since the 1980s.
"This is about holding Wall Street accountable, fixing the economy and getting the government on the side of consumers, not bankers".
"For the foreign media the Sunnis simply don't exist – so please tell our side of the story," a banker says.
Simple ranches, Georgian Colonials and farmhouse reproductions exist side by side, just as celebrities like Stephen Sondheim and Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, live side by side with bankers and electricians.
"He's capitalizing by positioning himself on the side of the demos against the bankers and financial markets — in his words, he doesn't want Italy to be a slave of Europe".
Indebted nations that can't repay creditors find themselves at the tender mercy of ad hoc schemes led by political leaders who usually side with bankers.
