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$1.6 billion went to bailed-out bank execs
Bozeman Daily Chronicle 12/21/08 Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits in the calendar year 2007, an Associated... ...
Jim Rogers Calls Most Big U.S. Banks "Bankrupt"
By Jonathan Stempel "Governments are making mistakes," he said. "They're saying to all the banks, you don't have to tell us your situation. You can continue to use your balance sheet that is phony....... ...
AIG Bailed Out Again
money.cnn.com — Troubled insurer American International Group got a reworked $152.5 billion deal from the federal government, as the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department made significant changes to... ...
Wall Street Bonus Madness
Wall St. has created such an "obscene" standard of compensation that the big shots really believe "it's hard to live on just a half million dollars a year." This does not appear to be much of an exaggeration.... ...
Wall Street Still Pays $20 Billion in Bonuses
bloomberg.com — Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven't stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses. Goldman Sachs Group... ...
Morgan Stanley's Bonuses Get Saved By You and Me
JONATHAN WEIL bloomberg.com — You can imagine the devilish grins on the faces of Morgan Stanley employees last week, after the Treasury Department said it would pump $10 billion into the bank. Not only... ...
Climbing Down the Ladder
Bob Herbert, The New York Times: "While the news media have been focusing on the banks, brokerage houses and mega-millionaires being buffeted by the ill winds of the financial crisis, the millions of lower-... ...
The Crisis Agenda
The New York Times, Editorial: "As stocks cratered on Monday and lending and borrowing remained frozen, the Bush administration rushed to implement the $700 billion bailout enacted on Friday. The Treasury... ...
Big Business is making sure it wins the presidency
AlterNet by Matt Taibbi 08/09/08 From Wall Street to the Big Oil powerhouses to the military-industrial complex, America’s fat-cat business leaders know that the Animal House-style party of the last... ...
Stocks Fall, Bonuses Rise
The Washington Post — On Wall Street, firms hit hard by the subprime slump are giving their executives—in some cases, executives who led their firms into the subprime market in the first place—multi-million... ...