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Goldman Sachs CEO polishes firm's image - USATODAY.comGoldman Sachs should be celebrating. The company has posted outstanding results the first nine months of the year, and it's on track to be a top adviser in the lucrative mergers-and-acquisitions business in the fourth quarter. Yet, the mood at the investment bank seems to be one of crisis as it ...
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Shareholders Object To Goldman's Giant Bonuses - The Atlantic Business ChannelWhen journalists, pundants and Main Street complain about the ever expanding size of Goldman Sachs' bonuses, the criticisms roll like water off the squid's back. But the Wall Street Journal is reporting that some Goldman shareholders are latest to cry foul. And unlike pretty much everybody else, ...
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Purdue Newsroom — New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO payChief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their "ideal salaries" in 2008, according to a new type of theoretical analysis proposed by a Purdue University researcher to determine fair CEO compensation. "One of the most pressing economic and ...
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Doubts raised on nuclear industry viabilityThe investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations of other energy sources, and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, but concerns are now being raised. A...
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AmEx pays $300 million for Steve Case's Revolution -- DailyFinanceRemember Steve Case? He's the guy that used to send you diskettes in the mail to get you to sign up for America Online so you could dial-up to the Internet. Then, in January 2000, he sold AOL to Time Warner (TWX) -- ultimate parent of DailyFinance -- in a $166 billion deal. On Dec. 9, Case's ...
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Chinese energy producers soar after record snows, Asian banks dip -- DailyFinanceIn China, shares in energy producers surged as the country plowed itself out from under heavy snow and the national Heating Office was forced to turn household heating on a full two weeks before the normally scheduled date due to extremely low temperatures. The added demand for fuel and ...
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Post-Pythagorean EconomicsNeoclassical economists are Pythagoreans. They still think that number is all. And they are still trying to find good and attain Utopia by aligning themselves with the first column of this ancient list.
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Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting RulesRyan Grim Civil War In Corporate America: Banks Battling The Chamber On Accounting Rules What's Your Reaction? Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by stripping ...
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1% now owns 40% - OpEdNewsBy Julian Edney ( about the author ) Page 1 of 3 page(s) For OpEdNews: Julian Edney - Writer America has been growing more unequal since the1790s [1]. The growth has been uneven: at some times in history the middle class grew and incomes became more similar, but then the trend resumed and ...
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I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman SachsNumber 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office block in lower Manhattan, doesn’t look like a place to stop and stare, and that’s just the way the people who work there like it. The men and women who arrive in the watery dawn sunshine, dressed in Wall Street black, clutching black ...
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