http://dougroberts.com/2009/03/th-aig-bonuses-freepassers-gone-wild/ Sat, 19 May 2012 18:13:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://dougroberts.com/2009/03/th-aig-bonuses-freepassers-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-3901 Liam Ford Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:02:17 +0000 http://dougroberts.com/?p=28#comment-3901 When I originally commented I clicked the "Notify me when new comments are added" checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove me from that service? - Thanks When I originally commented I clicked the “Notify me when new comments are added” checkbox and now each time a comment is added I get four emails with the same comment. Is there any way you can remove me from that service? - Thanks

]]> http://dougroberts.com/2009/03/th-aig-bonuses-freepassers-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-3846 florida health insurance Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:44:35 +0000 http://dougroberts.com/?p=28#comment-3846 Wall Street reform is going to fail for the same reason that health care reform was eviscerated. An obstructionist Republican Party that is voting as a bloc in order to cause the failure of the Obama presidency. Nothing that Obama supports is going to pass. Wall Street reform is going to fail for the same reason that health care reform was eviscerated. An obstructionist Republican Party that is voting as a bloc in order to cause the failure of the Obama presidency. Nothing that Obama supports is going to pass.

]]> http://dougroberts.com/2009/03/th-aig-bonuses-freepassers-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-3787 florida insurance claims Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:51:03 +0000 http://dougroberts.com/?p=28#comment-3787 This type of wealth disparity in this country is ridiculous and a hazard to a functioning democracy and free market. The $20.3 billion paid out as bonuses on Wall Street could support over a quarter-million good-paying middle class jobs. I truly believe the best way to prevent socialist tendencies in government is to prevent the accumulation of extreme wealth amongst the elite. Supply-side economics doesn't need to rely on the top-income earners to invest if there is a healthy middle class. It seemed that America functioned just fine (likely better) when the income disparity was much lower. This type of wealth disparity in this country is ridiculous and a hazard to a functioning democracy and free market. The $20.3 billion paid out as bonuses on Wall Street could support over a quarter-million good-paying middle class jobs. I truly believe the best way to prevent socialist tendencies in government is to prevent the accumulation of extreme wealth amongst the elite. Supply-side economics doesn’t need to rely on the top-income earners to invest if there is a healthy middle class. It seemed that America functioned just fine (likely better) when the income disparity was much lower.

]]> http://dougroberts.com/2009/03/th-aig-bonuses-freepassers-gone-wild/comment-page-1/#comment-3786 mizner park Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:42:41 +0000 http://dougroberts.com/?p=28#comment-3786 For me it isn't that people are "paid what they are worth" so much as the systemic over-valuation of the work performed. How is it possible, with massive layoffs and downsize--the market awash with employees--that compensation continues to increase? These bankers are the same folks who advise corporate management . . . doesn't such a practice call into question the validity of the advice? Lastly, could it be that the "bonus pool" is a third lower this year than previously because of "supply" being taken out of the market? That is to say, since Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearn, and Lehman, no longer "exist" the bonus pool dropped because of fewer employees? For me it isn’t that people are “paid what they are worth” so much as the systemic over-valuation of the work performed. How is it possible, with massive layoffs and downsize–the market awash with employees–that compensation continues to increase? These bankers are the same folks who advise corporate management . . . doesn’t such a practice call into question the validity of the advice? Lastly, could it be that the “bonus pool” is a third lower this year than previously because of “supply” being taken out of the market? That is to say, since Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearn, and Lehman, no longer “exist” the bonus pool dropped because of fewer employees?

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