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Govt rewarded bank auditors with big bonuses

WASHINGTON – As banks gambled on the risky mortgages that helped create the worst financial crisis in generations, the U.S. government handed out millions of ...

Humana CEO compensation for 2009 jumps 26 percent

INDIANAPOLIS — Health insurer Humana Inc. paid CEO Michael B. McCallister 26 percent more last year than in 2008, largely because of a $1.8 million ...

Goldman board rejects shareholder demands on pay

NEW YORK, March 1 - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's board has rejected several demands from shareholders that it investigate recent compensation awards, recoup excessive compensation ...

Goldman Sachs won't investigate executive pay

NEW YORK — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Monday it has rejected demands by shareholders to investigate the Wall Street bank's compensation practices.Shareholder lawsuits filed ...

Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein stands to collect $100 million bonus

He's been grilled by Congress and blasted by critics, but the chief executive of Goldman Sachs may soon have $100 million reasons to smile.Lloyd Blankfein, ...

Group demands banks give up bonuses to fill state budget gap

Hundreds of sign-toting members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI) stormed the lobbies of two downtown Des Moines banks Tuesday afternoon, temporarily halting business ...

Chris Dodd to step aside

Embattled Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd (D) has scheduled a press conference at his home in Connecticut Wednesday at which he is expected to announce he ...

AIG executives' promises to return bonuses have gone largely unfulfilled

When word spread earlier this year that American International Group had paid more than $165 million in retention bonuses at the division that had precipitated ...

Wall Street Bonuses Rise as Big 3 May Pay $30 Billion

Nov. 9 -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great ...

Profit 'Not Satanic,' Barclays Says, After Goldman Invokes Jesus

Nov. 4 -- Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer John Varley stood at the wooden lectern in St. Martin-in-the- Fields on London’s Trafalgar Square last night ...

Protesters Deliver Letter to Goldman Sachs—And Await Response

CHICAGO—After working for 42 years, Erma Hall-Wood thought she had earned a modest but peaceful retirement. Then the financial crisis devastated her savings and the ...

Announcing the Goldman Project

Goldman Sachs raked in billions with taxpayer help while you're still unemployed. The bank announced $3.1 billion in third-quarter profits, and set aside $5.3 billion ...

Take America Back from the Banks

The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the ...

Corporate America is fighting back

After a year in which the financial crisis forced the U.S. government to insert itself into the economy in unprecedented ways and pushed Americans' faith ...

Michael Moore on The Today Show: 'Send Your Pennies to Goldman Sachs'

Michael Moore on Morning Joe: 'Withdraw Your Money from Bailed Out Banks'

Wall Street On Track To Award Record Pay

Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their employees about $140 billion this year -- a record high that shows compensation ...