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...According to The Wall Street Journal, "Under the forthcoming rules, bonuses could come to no more than one-third of the total annual compensation paid to employees covered by the restrictions...
...recover investments and phantom monies. Previously, it appeared victims could only go back three years. With this new ruling, a theft loss deduction that creates a net operating loss for the taxpayer can be carried back five years and forward 20 years to generate a refund of taxes paid in other taxable years...
...most of what is planned does not work and one of the unintended consequences is that the process of salvaging large institutions is rarely fair. A lot of people, who should in a utopia, get nothing as the taxpayers dump money into the financial system to save it are paid very well. Others, who seem to be innocent bystanders in the process that has ruined financial firms and put tens of thousands of people out of jobs, are simply given the shaft...
...Word made it out recently that employees in the division that caused most of AIG's losses would be getting $450 million in bonuses. Some of the media put the number lower than that, but Congress and The White House have already complained loudly that any amount of money paid to an operation that helped undermine AIG's viability should get nothing. Edward Libby, the feckless former head of Allstate (ALL) who was brought in to turn AIG around, apparently did not know about the bonuses until recently. In the brief note he sent to the Fed apologizing...
...seemingly negligible amount paid by readers still takes up a major part of the company's revenue, Hou says a growing trend in the business is to convert online postings into hard copies of books, plays, movies or even computer games. Ghost Blows Out the Light, whose book and online game versions both became best sellers, already has a movie and a play in the making. More recently, a Shanda fantasy novel called The Star Games just sold its online game rights for 1 million yuan in January. "A major part of our job now is to forage those online...