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Don Needs A Safe-Because Banks Close early
You would think Don would have a safe in his home. According to the Dept of Labor Home Page 1.00 Dollor in 1963 is equal to 7.06 today. http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl And his 5,000 Dollor bonus is worth 35,289.05 in today dollors. A nice chuck of change. Personally, I think Don keeps all that cash around. Just in case he needs to ...
Posted to TV Club by gwhh76 on October 19, 2009
Re: Fleeing Millionaires
No, you have it wrong, Fella. When we have a Fiscal Crisis, it is because the Banks, the Elites, and their bought and paid for, 24 hour Media Saturation and Pollution of the Democratic Debate Field, have so ruined the Culture and the Country and the Economy, as to affect the employability and opportunity of Middle Class and Working Class guys like ...
Posted to Moneybox by MichaelBernard4 on July 25, 2009
The Gnomes of Zurich at UBS seem to
qualify as criminals, not to mention 52,000 or so of their American tax-evading clients. http://hubpages.com/hub/Crook-Alert-UBS-and-47-000-Americans-Secret-Accounts?comment=905664
Posted to Moneybox by narby on March 14, 2009
Nationalizing Citi is a good idea
This is the right thing to do, so as to help restore trust and confidence in our nation's largest bank. Time Mag recently ''stress tested'' 4 large banks (Citi, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan, and Bank of Am). Citi definitely is in trouble. Restructuring the banks business lines, and restoring a sound management team can be accomplished with assistance ...
Posted to Moneybox by richard_lee_morris on February 26, 2009
Thin Lobbyists Have Fat Wallets: Pimping Shame
given the string of public relations failure in recent hearings on the economic crisis, congress and some prominent bankers have decided to initiate a series of retreats conducted by the well known public relations firm, Pimping Shame the new focus will be on self-torture as a means of distracting public rage, designed to replace the ...
Posted to Moneybox by barry payne - economist on February 17, 2009
bank CEOS
The bank CEOS may have been unable to defend themselves because their conduct was indefensible. It may have been wrong; it may have been greedy; it may have been stupid, but I don't think it was indefensible. I suspect, rather, that they have CEO Syndrome, which is common in corporate America and aflicts CEOS and the people a level or two below ...
Posted to Moneybox by kbranson on February 16, 2009
why not pay hobos?
If there are ancillary economic benefits to bonuses, why not pay out the same money to all the unemployed guys. I am sure the multiplier effect of such payments would be far greater than bonuses paid to the already rich.
Posted to IM by amspock on February 2, 2009
Who's the world's worst banker
Fred Goodwin is a sound nomination - in the eulogy we could add that he also presided over a culture of increasingly breathtaking arrogance. This was a deeply unpleasant and corrosive part of the recent history of RBS, and is one of the important but unsung aspects of the whole sorry mess. Media commentary has tended to focus on the antics of ...
Posted to Moneybox by DanT on December 2, 2008
Paul Newman
And then we have the politicians and bank executives. What a contrast! Could we please get rid of the Current Congress along with the President?
Posted to Obit by ripoffsorg on September 30, 2008