Both would essentially be a banking bailout, with the burden of looming bad debts taken away from financial institutions.

The banking bailout invites politicians into the business of allocating the nation's capital among competing uses.

They'll have to sell an awful lot of pottery and blankets to make up for the multibillion pound banking bailout.

In the $700 billion banking bailout, the $800 billion economic stimulus and the rescue of rusting car giants, he swept through eye-wateringly expensive policies on the sheer drama of the crisis.

Banking, property and corporate pay markets are distorted by central bank policies such as quantitative easing and by government policy such as planning controls and banking bailouts.