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    Bonuses are back, big time, at three Wall Street giants
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    They still could face public wrath over the size of bonuses after the government injected capital into all the major financial institutions after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s collapse in September 2008. "Wall Street is beginning to resemble Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the film 'Gone With the Wind': 'Quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn,'" " said Paul Hodgson, a senior research associate on compensation at the Corporate Library, a nonprofit corporate governance and compensation analysis firm. Full Article at Austin American-Statesman
    Wall Street is beginning to resemble Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the film 'Gone With the Wind': 'Quite frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn,'
    SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman 1 month ago
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Bonuses are back, big time, at three Wall Street giants
  1. We made it through the storm, and now it's back to doing things that we know how to do in our comfortable environment ... It really runs counter to the things you're hearing out of the administration, about how things have to change.
    SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman 1 month ago
  2. Over the last eight years, compensation at Goldman Sachs has been perfectly correlated with net revenue ... The average annual earnings generated per employee over the same period are $221,731, which is 67 percent more than our next most profitable competitor.
    SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman 1 month ago
  3. Wall Street is all about creating wealth, and when banks start making money again, they have to pay their people ... But because there's so much public scrutiny, people will be very sensitive in terms of putting caps on some of these cash figures, and you'll see a lot more in stock.
    SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman 1 month ago
  4. It doesn't seem as if even political threat, disastrous PR, envy, rising unemployment rates and home repossessions is enough to get any of these people to refuse the bonuses they have 'earned.'
    SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman 1 month ago

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