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So it appears Greece defaulting on it's loan repayments is becoming more likely as Eurozone bosses cancelled a meeting with Greek officials.

"International lenders have told Greece to make huge cuts in return for a 130bn euro ($170bn,

lol designers eh? what do they know

Hope you're out there hoovering up the cheap choccies

forget names, I just love your avatar, makes me smile every time I see it

I tend to find the best fix for annoying computer issues like this is red wine

Ok, it's a short term fix

Yeah it sucks, parasites feeding off the vulnerable. I saw one the other day that said 7000% in the small print. How can that be legal?

I'm all for business and a free market, but there needs to be some ethics and compassion in there somewhere...

Absolutely, and no one will deny that the system was flawed, bonus's were obscene and the whole thing revolved on greed and bad judgement.

But that was then, it's time to start looking forward, and for that we need the Hestors of this world to salvage, rebuild and put these businesses on the right path. To get people of this caliber you need to reward them.

There's been plenty of shame in the financial services, and I'm certainly no fan of the banks, but I'm really looking forward to the economy finally moving forward, and for the bonus and witch hunt hysteria to become tomorrows chip wrappers.

The worlds banks will be under the spotlight for a long time to come, so I doubt we will see a return to crazy sub prime chaos as before, but for purely selfish reasons, I want the UK to be seen as a good place to do business. The more businesses that are expanding and doing well means more growth for all of us.

I don't actually logon to twitter very often, as I normally send tweets via things like tweet deck, but I was pleasantly surprised when I logged on last week and notices the interface had changed again.

This time, or at least to me it seems much more logical. I was never a real fan of the last big facelift, the one where we had to change our backgrounds as they no longer looked right

But I'm liking this new look (which has prob been out for 12 months ).

Hi Linda

Havent logged onto ezinearticles in ages, but when I did, I got a message saying I had a new dashboard.

I don't know what the old URL was (or even if it was different) but it now takes me to:
http://my.ezinearticles.com/

Could it be your old PC is trying to access your old control panel/dashboard?

On your PC, what browser are you using? If chrome, try opening an incognito window, so you log on without any cached credentials etc.

Cant rem how to do it in IE, it's been that long

I disagree with this, far too socialist for my liking

That said, I don't know the details of Barclays, so maybe its a loss, but the bank has performed better than expected, and it could have been a huge loss? But forgetting about the individual bank, it's the sentiment I don't agree with.

A lot of us here are running businesses. Taking out the flexibility argument and the feeling of working for yourself or being the boss, the harsh reality is, it's bloody hard graft.

As a business owner or employer, you will work a dam site harder than the average employee, you will have an awful lot more responsibility, stress, pressure etc. So unless you are a saint, you are doing all this for a financial gain.

If you have a particularly good year or quarter, then no doubt you will give yourself a better dividend as a reward for all the hard work you've put in.

Now imagine someone coming along and saying, nope, you can't earn any more. Thats it, regardless how well you do, generating revenue, offering job security for your workforce. It's hardly going to you an incentive or stimulate you into bigger and better things.

Of course employees that have done well and gone the extra mile should receive a bonus if it is genuinely earned, and the same system should go all the way to the top, regardless of salary.

Why treat banks or public companies any different? All the previous issues have been flagged, the system was out of control, the financial services sector imploded in a frenzy of greed and power.

But from the ashes, lets reward star performing bosses who are sifting through the mess and turning these huge corporations round and making the hard decisions I certainly wouldn't want to.

I'd sooner have a banks senior management performing well, and motivated, looking forward and trying to stabilse and secure the remaining workforce, rather than an unmotivated one, that will spell more doom and gloom and potentially put more homeless on the streets.