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Washington Times - Obama tries to block AIG's bonuses »
Posted by: monicachenoa 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
President Obama, seeking to quell anger from taxpayers whom he soon may have to ask to support another bailout, on Monday called for trying to ...
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Government to set limits on ALL salaries »
Posted by: k9kssr 7 months, 1 week ago in News
It was nearly two weeks ago that the House of Representatives, acting in a near-frenzy after the disclosure of bonuses paid to executives of AIG ...
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Chorus of outrage over millions in AIG bonuses »
Posted by: engineer 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Leaders of the White House economic team and the Senate's top Republican bellowed about bonuses at a bailed-out insurance giant and pledged to prevent ...
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Taxpayers foot the bill for billions in unearned bonuses »
Posted by: engineer 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
In the final days of the last Congress, some members wanted to give the impression that they were going to get tough on people who ...
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Wall Street bonuses: where's the outrage? »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Business & Finance
Except for Michael Moore, whose new movie posits that capitalism is one big Ponzi scheme, the news that banks are thriving and that Wall Street ...
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The Real AIG ScandalI: It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full. »
Posted by: bruhaha 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's ...
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What's Still Wrong with Wall Street »
Posted by: Progressive 6 days, 22 hours ago in Political Opinion
Are you furious? If not, you should be. The giant financial institutions that make up Wall Street have been bailed out, thanks to trillions of ...
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Time For‘We The People’to Say Enough is Enough? »
Posted by: Varadinum 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
This week s news about AIG paying 76 executives bonuses that started at $1,000,000 each, (including several who then immediately left the company ...
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I'm Sick of AIG »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
This week has featured a lot of discussion on AIG. There is widespread outrage over the payments of bonuses to employees. There is finger-pointing and ...
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Angry senator wants pay cap on Wall Street 'idiots' »
Posted by: engineer 9 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
One day after President Barack Obama ripped Wall Street executives for their; shameful decision to hand out $18 billion in bonuses in 2008, Congress may ...
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Senator: Shoddy work by same contractor involved in deaths of U.S. troops »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Military contractor KBR Inc. was paid $83.4 million in bonuses for electrical work in Iraq — much of it after the U.S. military's ...
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Goldman Sachs 2009 bonuses to double 2008s; $23 billion could send 460,000 to Harvard, buy insurance for 1.7 million families »
Posted by: tehranchik 3 weeks, 4 days ago in Business & Finance
Yesterday, we brought you the insurance company that wouldn't insure a 17-pound infant because he was too heavy. Today, we bring you the investment ...
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Citi boosting salaries to offset lower bonuses »
Posted by: engineer 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Citigroup Inc. is increasing base salaries for many of its employees ? reportedly by as much as 50 percent for some workers ? as it restructures its ...
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KBR Got Bonuses for Work that Killed Soldiers »
Posted by: bruhaha 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The Department of Defense paid former Halliburton subsidiary KBR more than $80 million in bonuses for contracts to install electrical wiring in Iraq. The award ...
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Federal Pay Czar Tries Again to Trim A.I.G. Bonuses »
Posted by: engineer 3 weeks, 4 days ago in Business & Finance
The federal pay czar is trying to force the American International Group to reduce $198 million in bonuses promised to employees of its trading unit ...
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