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11.06.2009 5:15 pm

A reason to hire me

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Re/ David Brooks (Confidence: The fatal conceit, 10/28) view that the bonus blessed CEO’s will go elsewhere if the bonuses for mismanagement don’t continue, I have an idea:. I shall offer my mismangement skills to Corporation XYZ with the admonition…
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07.23.2009 4:23 pm

Twisting the truth on bailouts and banks

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I accept Z. Dwight Billingsly’s opinion pieces as being heavily slanted to the right. What is troubling is his use of distortion and erroneous claims to support his opinions. “Goldman Bunuses” is a case in point. He implies that the…

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04.17.2009 9:45 pm

Restricting compensation would hinder recovery

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Banks already have begun to return federal assistance money. They don’t want to live with restrictions in executive compensation and other areas. While these restrictions have support amongst the uninformed, they are counter-recovery – a classic example of unintended consequences.

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02.05.2009 4:04 pm

I’m starting to get it: There are two kinds of people

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I think I’m starting to get it -

1. High level administrators and executives, both public and private, are not members of the species homo sapiens. They are an alien race whose progenitors arrived here at the time of the Sumerians…

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02.05.2009 4:03 pm

No success, no bonus!

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thank you for your editorial GETTING THEIRS dated February 3, 2009. I applaud Sen. Caskill for her bill in the Senate to put a cap on executive compensation while receiving federal bail outs for their failing companies. In my mind,…

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02.03.2009 4:56 pm

If the bankers are ‘idiots,’ what does that make Congress

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Senator McCaskill called the bankers idiots for doling out huge bonuses. My question is: then what would she call Congress? Congress just went ahead and forked over huge amounts of our taxpayer dollars to these so called idiot bankers to…

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02.03.2009 4:54 pm

This is the change America needs?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A story appearing in the the Financial Times on Jan 29 reported that “President Barack Obama lashed out…at “shameful” Wall Street executives for claiming billions of dollars in bonuses while their stricken institutions asked taxpayers for support.” I agree.

But…

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