Thursday, January 29, 2009

Jan. 29, 2009

Jan. 29, 2009—Despite crippling losses, multi-billion dollar bailouts and the passing of some of the most prominent names in the business, employees at financial companies in New York, the now-diminished world capital of capital, collected an estimated $18.4 billion in bonuses for the year. NYT A1

--“I had on khakis and a buttoned-down shirt [on Saturday morning at the White House], and I had to stand by the door and get chewed out for about 15 minutes. [Bush] wouldn’t even let me cross the threshold.”—Dan Bartlett, counselor to GWB—NYT A14

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