WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed Wall Street banks pay up to US$117bil to reimburse taxpayers for the financial bailout, as he slammed bankers for their “massive profits and obscene bonuses.”
Striking a populist tone, Obama called for a fee on the biggest US banks to “recover every single dime” the government spent rescuing the financial sector from its worst crisis since the Great Depression.
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