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What's a Guy Gotta Do to Get Fired? A Rant on AIG Bonuses

A lot of ink, both digital and otherwise, has been spilled over the AIG bonus fiasco. A lot, but not enough. I rarely, if ever, side with the populis[...] read more »
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Taxpayers Are Funding $70 Billion In Bonuses For Execs, Too.

It would add insult to injury to ask taxpayers not only to bail out a firm, but to pay for bonuses as well. read more »
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Bashed but not bashful bankers to get their bonuses

The UK government tried to curb big bonuses for one year with a special tax, reflecting the huge bailouts. Bankers have stuck two fingers up. read more »
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Frank Calls for `Moratorium' on Wall Street Bonuses

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said there should be a freeze on Wall Street bonuses until companies find a way to keep the[...] read more »
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$100 Million Payday for Energy Trader?

Citigroup hasn't repaid its TARP money, and is at a disadvantage to other Wall Street firms because the government can veto bonuses. Now, they owe [...] read more »
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Banking bonuses are back

Huge bonuses are back for the bankers - and the logic they use to justify their grossly inflated incomes is even less convincing than before the crun[...] read more »
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Let's Move On

It is time to move past AIG and their bonuses.... there are bigger fish to fry. read more »
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Banks Owe Executives Billions In Compensation, Report Says

Troubled financial giants getting cash infusions from the U.S. Federal Reserve owe their executives more than $40 billion for past year’s pay and pen[...] read more »
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1000 Times - Putting the AIG Bonuses into Perspective

A comic from XKCD putting the size of the AIG bonuses into perspective. read more »
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The Truth About AIG, Failure, Bailouts, and Executive Bonuses

Politics affects your money more than you think, especially when you're being lied to about where your hard earned tax dollars are going... read more »
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Should the AIG Bonuses be Taken Away or Not

The angry mobs demand the bonuses be returned. But would you return your bonus even if you did nothing wrong? read more »
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Bonuses for Wall Street Should Go to Zero, U.S. Taxpayers Say

U.S. taxpayers, who feel they own a stake in Wall Street after funding a $700 billion bailout for the industry, don't want executives' bonuses redu[...] read more »
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On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits, Were Real

“As a result of the extraordinary growth at Merrill during my tenure as C.E.O., the board saw fit to increase my compensation each year.” read more »
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AIG and Other Banks Will Have No More Bonuses

It’s not that banks nor AIG will issue bonuses but just that employees within the firms that took TARP money will have the bonuses taxed at 90%.All b[...] read more »
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Market News Live: Video: AIG stays in the hotseat

For some taxpayers, AIG is now a symbol of what's gone wrong with the US government's bailout plan. Adding to the backlash, news from Capitol Hill [...] read more »
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