The Associated Press has crunched the numbers: “Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals.” The CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein: $54 million. The CEO of Merrill Lynch, John A. Thain: $83 million. The chairman of [...]
The NYT reports today that cobblers from Lebanon, China and Iraq are claiming to have made the shoes that an Iraqi journalist tossed at President Bush, but one in Turkey seems to be gaining the marketing edge with Ducati Model 271, since renamed “The Bush Shoe”: A new run of 15,000 pairs, destined for Iraq, [...]
