Lunchtime Links: Nick Clegg on bankers - ''I want to wring the neck of these wretched people''
Following the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, it's become unacceptable for politicians to use language alluding to physical violence in the US. That message doesn't seem to have reached the UK. In an interview this morning on BBC Radio Sheffield, Nick Clegg declared that he'd like to "wring" bankers' necks.
Understandably, Clegg's statement has been lost in the coverage of the Japanese earthquake. It's another indication, however, that as their popularity and morale slide, the Lib Dems are going to convene around banker-bashing as their most likely means of revival.
Macquarie has hired David Fass, former head of European global banking at Deutsche, as its European CEO. (Bloomberg)
Members of New York's clergy gathered in front of JPMorgan Chase's Park Avenue headquarters to exorcise the evil spirits inhabiting the bank. (Huffington Post)
Jamie Dimon, Vikram Pandit and Lloyd Blankfein are advising the Kremlin on how to turn Moscow into a global financial centre. (Bloomberg)
Further evidence of hiring in Brazil. (Reuters)
Schroders had a record year last year and recruited 125 people. (Financial Times)
Fred Goodwin has obtained a super injunction preventing him being identified as a banker. (Alphaville)
Cryptic and codified insinuation possibly helping explain why this is. (OrderOrder)
Japan lies on the cusp of the Pacific-Philippine-Eurasian triple plate junction. (platetectonics)
Japan has 55 nuclear power plans and another 13 under construction
