tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post1135801224184209370..comments2009-03-18T05:10:14.426-07:00Eric deCarbonnelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08023745289801416061noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-48146676564206400222009-03-18T05:10:00.000-07:002009-03-18T05:10:00.000-07:00Boys,<BR/><BR/>Don't be mislead by the word "bonus". For these guys it is just regular pay negotiated up-front, the only thing is that a part of their income is called bonus. And besides these guys have often made very long hours this year working in these dynamic times.Martijnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-65995504365243530592009-03-16T03:24:00.000-07:002009-03-16T03:24:00.000-07:00Americans have to asume that now they are serfs to the goverment, like us europeans alredy are.Hugonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-68004502359566056542009-03-15T23:35:00.000-07:002009-03-15T23:35:00.000-07:00This reminds me of Marie Antoinette and the "let them eat cake" saying. AIG doesn't seem to get who feeds them TAXPAYERS! Well, what happened to her...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-58979735424156206642009-03-15T21:56:00.000-07:002009-03-15T21:56:00.000-07:00Bonus means "good" in Latin. What good have these people done?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-502356674750161309.post-63523530376148889722009-03-15T21:01:00.000-07:002009-03-15T21:01:00.000-07:00Funny, I was just drooling over Atlas Shrugged's comment on MarketWatch and then came to your page, where you also have it printed. It needs to be emphasized, here it is again:<BR/><BR/>While Bear Stearns was collapsing, Goldman Sachs boasted that it had insulated itself by buying insurance against the mortgage-backed derivatives. As it turns out, it was, in fact, rescued by the Fed when it bailed out AIG. In 2007, Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs’ CEO, received $70 million in compensation, including bonuses, $27 million in cash. A Democrat, he contributed $7,000 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. At the time the New York Fed came to AIG's assistance, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner was its head. Blankfein is still drawing down millions in compensation. The rationale for his compensation is the alleged profitability of Goldman Sachs, which raked in over $9 billion in 2006. It should also be noted that the bailout stopped Goldman stock from plummeting, thereby protecting not only Blankfein’s fortune, but that of Hank Paulson, the former chairman of Goldman Sachs, who was Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush. This is perhaps the greatest financial scandal in American history but most Americans are totally ignorant of it.matty84http://www.blogger.com/profile/06483923398330636675noreply@blogger.com