When the global economy came to the point of collapse we made billions available to prop up the failing banks. Three years on, massive private sector failure has been recast as a weakness of the public sector. As the cuts begin to bite, we ask how did it come to this, and what should be done? Why are banks that we bailed out allowed to award themselves billions in bonuses? Where did our money go? Who let the banks get away with it? Why? And, what could be done to put it right?

In the Fink Club ring:

• Tony Greenham, Head of Finance and Business, nef
•  David Hillman, Robin Hood Tax campaign
• Richard Murphy, Tax Research LLP

Chaired by Andrew Simms, nef fellow and author of Ecological Debt

Brought to you by the Robin Hood Tax Campaign and the campaign to take back our banks at nef (the new economics foundation).