19-01-2011, 02:35 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Goldman Sachs annual profits have just been announced and are down by 37%
Staff and partner remuneration is, in comparison, down by 5%.
However did the idea gain a foothold that performance bonuses were performance related?
Fuck up and still get handsomely rewarded.
That's market ethics for you.
Thanks David, I wasn't aware they had any ethics - now I know they have 'market ethics' [Enron ethics] :thumbsdown:. But don't worry, they're 'too big to fail'...just as the average Pleb [alone and as a group] are 'too little to bother saving'.....
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