"So, it's not something that the bankers are going to be thrilled about."

"How many bankers are going to say: 'I forecast a long-term bankruptcy?' "

A banker goes into business because he's an Orca and he doesn't like the sea.

They are going where no banker has gone before, into the primordial landscape of Russian private finance.

But it should be possible to insure that when bankers go careering off the road they don't take the rest of us with them.

I figured the bankers would go look for it.

I don't know if the bankers will go along with it.

The banker had evidently gone to some length to find out what he knew about Bell.

"The pay cut was enough to make my banker go crazy," he said.

Monday morning the bankers are going to find out that they don't know what they have, either.