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December 2009

Renumeration: The US pay-cuts fiasco


The US authorities’ approach to curbing bankers’ remuneration is ill-judged and inequitable.


Should bankers be paid less? President Barack Obama’s pay tsar, Kenneth Feinberg, can’t seem to make up his mind. After cutting total compensation at the seven largest recipients of US taxpayer money in October, he has now said he might reconsider that move if talent at the firms affected walks out the door. Well of course they will. There are only two banks on the list – Citi and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Cutting the...


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