By far the most cheering thing in this newspaper last week was a letter from Robert Pickering, the man who used to run Cazenove. In it, he took a potshot at Antony Jenkins, the Barclays boss, for trotting out the dreary old cliché of the death spiral to justify his bankers’ bonuses. There is absolutely no need, Mr Pickering pointed out, to pay ever bigger sums to prevent investment bankers from quitting – no bank ever went under because its people got poached. Bankers come and go and the world goes on turning.
英国《金融时报》不久前刊登的一封来信令人拍手称快，写信者是曾执掌嘉诚(Cazenove)的罗伯特•皮克林(Robert Pickering)。皮克林在信中对巴克莱(Barclays)的老大安东尼•詹金斯(Antony Jenkins)意外发难，原因是后者随手拎出“死亡螺旋”的老套说法，来为给银行家发放高额奖金辩护。皮克林指出，通过支付越来越高的薪酬来预防投资银行家离职，是完全没有必要的——从来没有哪家银行因为员工被挖而破产。银行家们来来去去，世界依然在运转。
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