Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Who'd be a villain?


The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), levied a fine of $200m on Barclays, & the US Justice Department's Criminal Division fined them $160m.

Yesterday GlaxoSmithKline was fined $3bn for ‘the largest healthcare fraud case in US history.

So far I have heard no indignation from journalists or wrath from MPs, no public outrage, no calls for heads to roll or demands for resignation, no clamour for independent inquiry into the culture of drug-making.

I wonder why not.

Well we can only pursue one uneatable villain at a time. There can be only one public enemy number one at any one time.