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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJamie Dimon gets a fucking RAISE
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is getting a 74 percent pay raise despite the bank paying out about $20 billion last year to settle several legal and regulatory issues, the company announced on Friday.
His total pay package for 2013, approved by the banks board of directors, is $20 million.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/jamie-dimon-gets-a-big-raise-102570.html#ixzz2rMf050XY
On edit: This is what a tapeworm does when the banking industry never gets back to that regulation you thought it finally had after the great depression:
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Jamie Dimon gets a fucking RAISE (Original Post)
MrMickeysMom
Jan 2014
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It is a such bullshit, and exemplifies the pigs of wall street. NO ONE IS WORTH 20 million
lostincalifornia
Jan 2014
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VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)1. 20 million....geez...you could run a small country on that budget!
or buy a few politicians in a large one...
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)2. I didn't realize they paid federal prisoners.
Oh wait, you mean he's still....
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)3. It is a such bullshit, and exemplifies the pigs of wall street. NO ONE IS WORTH 20 million
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)5. As it has been said in the financial community … it's apparently worth it!
The problem raised by the Dimon case isn't managerial so much as regulatory. Dimon's continuing role is the harvest of a disciplinary system that punishes white-collar crime by exacting corporate fines, not personal responsibility.
So, apparently any chief executive with a moral compass would have stepped down, but not he
. He's responsibility for JPMorgan's record and our brave members of congress are owned parlor whores of this allegiance.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)4. No good deed goes unpunished....And apparently no shitty deeds go unrewarded for the 1 percenters