Are the bank bailouts too generous?

Business Daily keeps a beady eye on the banks as they tussle with governments on both sides of the Atlantic over how much control there should be.

Are they getting off lightly after the taxpayer bailout, and are they too cosy with government?

The other immediate question now is how the US banks will cut the strings that came with the Federal government's Troubled Asset Relief Programme. Under TARP, they got the money and the government got some control. The BBC's Karen Nye explains.

Too cheap?

In other words, the banks are now paying back the taxpayer to get back control over their own affairs - which begs the question of price? The lower the price, the better for the banks but the worse for the taxpayer.

According to Dr Linus Wilson of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the negotiated price is too low. He told Steve Evans how he concluded this.

First broadcast 22 July 2009