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Versailles Watch: John Mack Whines About How Badly Wall Street CEOs are Treated
Posted on February 12, 2014 by Yves Smith
You cannot make this stuff up. Reader Chris kindly sent this snapshot from a Google search:
.....(snip).....
The CNBC story flags the inflammatory portion, which starts at 5:23:
He (Mack) said he would love to see people stop beating up on Lloyd and Jamie. He added: I think that would make a lot of sense, and Im in favor of that.
He said a debate over compensation was necessary and healthy, but he emphasized that chief executives should be judged according to their companies performance.
As long as shareholders reward performance what these companies have delivered we can argue is it $10 million too much or $1 million too much, Mr. Mack said.
Robert Peston, today writing about Barclays, by happenstance rebutted Macks efforts to off brush the fact that the leader of the banks that drove the global economy off the cliff were still employed at lavish pay levels:
The problem is that there is blank incomprehension from those not in the industry that the going rate remains so high for people widely seen as being more than walk-ons in the epic near-destruction of global financial capitalism just a short while ago.
The worst is that Mack and other members of his class (elite financiers and the 0.1%) really dont get it. They live in such a cloistered world that the fact that theyve gotten away with abject incompetence, malfeasance, and in the case of JP Morgan, almost certain criminal conduct (among other things, as we have discussed in considerable detail, Sarbanes Oxley violations and the criminal case that the DoJ settled rather than prosecuted), according to Mack, is perfectly kosher if investors dont mind. And why should investors mind? Last I checked, crime and predatory conduct are very lucrative businesses if you can get away with it. ......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/02/versailles-watch-john-mack-whines-badly-wall-street-ceos-treated.html
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Another poor, oppressed, put-upon 1 percenter ............ (Original Post)
marmar
Feb 2014
OP
Just take all the money back and turn them out into the world they made. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#3
Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. Beating up? Many are advocating public hangings and the guillotine.
I'd settle for some very long prison sentences myself.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)3. Just take all the money back and turn them out into the world they made. n/t
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Too cruel.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)8. I wrestled with that, really, I did.
But life is hard, and sometimes a few must be sacrificed for the good of the many...
Besides, it's nothing personal, it's just business.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)9. "Just business". Snort.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)2. I'm looking for work
Maybe he'd care to step aside and give me his salary instead? If he's tired of all the pressure, I mean...
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)4. They can not get treated bad enough, soon enough to suit me.
progressoid
(49,978 posts)6. Hey, John...
Aerows
(39,961 posts)7. Now that is absolutely
hilarious!
HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)12. LOVE IT
Thank you!
Initech
(100,063 posts)10. Move along, nothing to see here!!
xchrom
(108,903 posts)11. du rec.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)13. fun fact!: Versailles was intended to tame and idle the aristocracy (d'épée)
by making them scratch at doors and trot like poodles to hold his hem at the morning ceremony (rather than leading the people against the king and his favored new elites)
the more you know! *starburst*