Re: [Pen-l] AIG: screw the contracts

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] AIG: screw the contracts
From: raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:41:08 -0700
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Carl Dassbach <dassbach@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Talk about picking battles, this is one that should be fought if only for
> the popular indignation it is causing.
>
> I think the bonuses should be denied and the aggrieved should be encouraged
> to initiate civil actions in front of juries.


Popular indignation is easily mollified with a symbolic victory.

That aside, you really think the 2008 AIG bonuses is really an issue
worth fighting over? Now, if we are talking about clawing back bonuses
from all Wall St firms getting bailed out, say from 2005 onwards, that
would be a different story and definitely worth fighting for. But
this?
-raghu.


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  - Re: [Pen-l] AIG: screw the contracts, mike Tue 17 Mar 2009, 16:04 GMT
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