A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Umbrella
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
In its original version, the FTAA was meant to be a special carve-out for Washington and Wall Street as global ‘free trade’ advanced under the umbrella of the Doha round of the WTO.