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Pay Czar Caves On AIG Pay, Lifts $500,000 Salary Limit

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

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Just one day after five execs reportedly threatened to jump ship over government-mandated pay cuts, Obama's "Pay Czar" Kenneth Feinberg is lifting a b...

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Swine Flu Found on Wall Street

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 06.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Hedge Funds, Wall Street Bonuses, Acrimoney, Swine Flu, Shareholders, AIG Retention Bonuses, Wall Street, Citigroup, Business News
Norb Vonnegut

Hedge funds are often unstable. One bad year, and investors pull their capital. A few bad "marks," and lenders make margin calls.

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It's Up to the Shareholders, Not the Government, to Demand Change at a Company

Carl Icahn | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business

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Carl Icahn

For too long and for a variety of reasons, shareholders have been complicit in allowing management excesses and incompetence by not taking a stand.

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It's Bonus Time at AIG!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aig, Gerry Pasciucco, Hank Paulson, AIG Retention Bonuses, Tim Geithner, AIG Bailout, Aig Bonuses, Henry Paulson, Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, American International Group, Lawrence Summers, Edward Liddy, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Let us suggest, Mr. President, that one man's "outrage" is another man's vacation home. And what some call "greed," others recognize as the lubricant that turns the wheels of commerce.

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Jason Linkins

AIG's Biggest "Retention Bonuses" Recipients Left Company

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aig, Aig Bonuses, AIG Retention Bonuses, Aig Policy, AIG Bailout, Bonus Outrage, Politics News

So, these AIG "retention bonuses," they are extraordinary things. Dig the way the $165 million was disbursed, according to the lead paragraph in this...

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