Finanzmarkt

Der Finanzminister in der Obama Administration, Timothy Geithner, will am Finanzmarkt hart durchgreifen. Krisen wie die letzte Finanzkrise mit milliardenschweren Finanzdebakeln und Milliardenhilfen des Staates für angeschlagene Finanzinstitute sollen sich nicht wiederholen.
Bloomberg von heute: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called for major changes in compensation practices at financial companies and said the Obama administration’s plan to help realign pay with performance will be rolled out by mid-June.

“I don’t think we can go back to the way it was,” Geithner said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” to be aired tonight and over the weekend. “We’re going to need to see very, very substantial change.”

He said that Wall Street’s pay practices, which include big year-end bonuses, encouraged excessive risk-taking and helped precipitate the financial crisis. What’s needed is a set of broad standards that financial supervisors can use to make sure that doesn’t happen again, he said.

Gerade deswegen hat Obama wohl Geithner in sein Team geholt. Der Change am Finanzmarkt ist angekündigt!