1936 Olympics? is it true that he shared a box with some of the most important financiers of Europe or their agents? how he was able to make the speeches he did against the "World financiers" ,,while at the same time sitting next to them or their representatives? did he also accept quite a lot...
couldn't even live on their wages? If we have cheap footballers nobody else wants it's not easy to win the league or the cup so if we have cheap bankers nobody else wants are we ever going to fix our problems? Hopefully the government have made the rules tighter so they won't be able to play too...
A few of my friends work for the investment banking arm of RBS. They've been complaining that their bonuses are down from last year. I think they are being ungrateful. If it weren't for the government, ie us, bailing them out, they wouldn't even have a job or salary let alone a bonus. Opinions...
"Is this America -- when you do what your government asks you to do and then retroactively you also have additional conditions?," rails Wells Fargo CEO Richard Kovacevich, according to Bloomberg.
One response to Kovacevich - and other executives like JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon who've complained...
I think most fair-minded people agree that bankers whose banks have just been bailed out with tax-payers money don't deserve to get bonuses, which is effectively a reward for incompetence and greed.
As the bankers have been smart enough to get the bonuses into their contracts, it may be...
Basically, as far as I know, we are about to have a lot of central London banks announce their bonuses to staff imminently... Should Gordon be brave and follow Barrack Obama's example to put a cap on the bonuses?
It was reported today that there is some pressure from Darling, stating "cap...
i work for RBS and earn £80K in HR. Told today my team were getting 10% bonus, = £8K.
Unfort i have to pay tax on that, but quite content. Ive worked my arse off this year, so why all the uproar about bonuses in the press? Surely its right that these decisions are taken on performance based...