“I would occasionally go off in partners meetings and say something to the effect, ‘I hope you guys all understand,’ and remind them, ‘people don’t like you. Very few people do’.'”
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did he think he comp was out of whack…when he was a banker?
i don't remember any news accounts of his holiness hanky offering to give back his bonus or offer it to charity in protest of it's out-of-whackness…
Ha ha! Pretending like I knew what to do, HA HA HA, like we're going to manage this, -chortle!- and we've been preparing for this a long, -tee hee!- a long time, Hey, hey Dick, PULL MY FINGER!
Ahhh, good times.
Paulson is a liar and a hypocrite.
When he became Treasury secretary, he was able to sell all of his Goldman shares – without paying income tax.
That's right, he converted his Goldman shares to Treasuries and didn't pay tax.
And now he's sanctimonious about bankers vs. the taxpayer?!
I dont agree with anything Obama is doing. However, recently Amex raised its rates on all card members. I spoke with Ken Chanult's assistant and he cited major financial strain on the company due to defaults by several card members.
So basically Amex is fleecing the wealthier or "good members" to pay off the defaults or bad investments Amex made. They are doing this now, deliberately ahead of the govt mandate about raising interest rates on current card member agreements. They are choosing this awful job/weak economy to raise rates!
Last week I read that Kenny got a raise of over 1 million bucks and now makes 2M a year.
Maybe Obama has a point?
@5 – pay your bill on time, and you won't worry about the rate. Similarly, don't charge what you can't pay off. See: Living within your means.
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@6
I pay on time and this has nothing to do with living within my means. The issue is a company taking bailout bucks (tax payer money) to sustain itself and keep its employees. Then turning around and paying it back while they said, they are still having financial issues so they need to "tax" their good customers.
They broke an agreement with me to fleece me and then they give the CEO a raise while the rest of the country faces 10% unemployment? Yet when they needed help, they took our money.
This is disgusting and goes right to what Obama is saying about the banks NOT GETTING IT.
I find it interesting you choose to defend it. As I mentioned I dont agree with Obama, I think he sucks. This situation, makes him look like he has a point and I dont see it any other way.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
@6 so its ok for Amex to live beyond its means because they can always rely on tax money. Then when they are done using tax money they can go after their paying customers for profit?
total bullshit.
@5, 10
http://www.mum.org may be of some help to you.
Not sure if it is SFW or not.
he's not looking very regal these days.
@11 You rock! That was awesome. Just one question.
How are you doing with that mostly stock bonus?
yeah, thats probably not so good… keep defending these assholes and see how that work out for you.
Idiot.
@13 you're not welcome here. find the exit.
I found it in your mom's asshole. Its actually more like a huge entrance though.
–13
Was he looking in the mirror when he said that?
Hey redneck, you are short sighted. i realize you are having trouble reading since there are no big pictures for you, so i will go slowly.
i am not a defender of Obama, i dont like his policies and frankly I think he is liar. I also do NOT blame all of WS for the issues we are having.
However, you have to call out bullshit when you see it and this Amex situation is absolutely ridiculous. If you like being "over compensated" and hate getting paid in stock because of Obama. Then stop defending the assholes in your industry who are making things worse for the everyone.
You just seem like, well a redneck. oh and stop fucking your sister.
@18 find the nearest paperbag, place over mouth, close eyes, breath DEEP, repeat.
Relax buddy you are awful worked up on a Monday. My post was meant to bring a little jocularity and levity to the thread. Keep it up at this pace and your going to give yourself hemoroids.
Get over the fact your AMEX rate went up. It was an increase to ALL members. If you think that your pricing is not tied to the overall performance of the product you have never worked in pricing…..How do you think California insurance buyers feel?
@19 understood. You have a point, too much coffee. Amex still pisses me off!!
where the f*ck did this guy come from? Seriously, dude(tte), I'm curious, how did you find DB, and perhaps even more curiously, do you actually read often?
Its good you're anti-obama (who isn't?), so that's a start, but your complete lack of understand of how financial firms operate is disappointing, at best.
@13/15
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