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Goldman's Magnanimous Seven
Seven of its top executives have taken a massive salary cut from $67 million plus to just $600,000 per year. If they take you to lunch, be prepared to go Dutch. A picture guide to their earnings, wives, homes, and hobbies.
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Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Going Rogue: The Index
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
I Was a Victim of Blago's Vendetta
Before joining the Daily Beast, Ross Goldberg worked as a staff reporter on the New York Sun's city desk, where he covered courts as well as general assignments. In college, he served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
Taking the Sheen Off Obama
Before joining the Daily Beast, Ross Goldberg worked as a staff reporter on the New York Sun's city desk, where he covered courts as well as general assignments. In college, he served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
Finally, Good News for Newspapers
Before joining the Daily Beast, Ross Goldberg worked as a staff reporter on the New York Sun's city desk, where he covered courts as well as general assignments. In college, he served as managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
I guess those 16-20 hour days for years and years on end paid off. I would have died had I to keep that rigorous a schedule for that long.
Add up their 2007 salaries and they could have done most of the bailout themselves. I'll think of their plight as I file for unemployment benefits.
What? $67million? Greed at it's finest! Perhaps if they hadn't raped the company in the previous years they would not be in such a dire predicament.
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