Sunday, January 30, 2011

TURN YOUR STOMACH TIME...NOTHING CHANGES

America's favorite bankers have outdone themselves yet again.

"How might you compensate management for a year in which profits plunged, you spent $550 million of shareholder money to settle a fraud investigation and your stock ended up more or less exactly where it started (see chart, right)?


Pay? Sure. Performance? Not so much
You might be tempted to nix raises or withhold bonuses to send a responsible message about linking pay to performance. But if so, you wouldn't be Goldman Sachs (GS).

It just had the year described above – and responded by tripling everyone's base salary while boosting bonuses by 40%. Is this a great country or what?"

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