Big Wall Street Bonuses Are Back, Bro!

Good news all around today! The unemployed will probably get another five months to choose a barrel-and-suspenders combo that doesn't make their butts look big, and a new study shows that Wall Street holiday bonuses are set to return to pre-recession levels. So everybody's happy, and there's no need for any pitchfork riots or bricks through Park Avenue windows. Go Yankees!

Consultant Johnson Associates' annual report, which the Times describes as "a closely watched signpost for the bonus season," projects that financial industry payouts will be up 40 percent from 2008, when Wall Street handed out nearly $20 billion in cash awards and billions more in incentives to NYC employees. But just remember people, fiscal restraint is still called for, and let's not get carried away with excessive holiday gratuities for the help.

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By John Del Signore in News on November 5, 2009 1:36 PM

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NannyState

That's why I saw Barbara Corcoran coming out of Frederick's with bags full of fish net stockings.

inoyourider

Fuck these assholes.

Only the scum of the earth would get filthy rich from usury.

The only reason s that we let them.

Bike Rider

am i gonna have to dust off the old pitchfork

zodak

i used my bonus to buy some new business cards in bone with silian rail lettering

JRod5417

Make sure your cards have watermark.

imadick

let's call the bonuses "tips". everyone likes tipping.

Mr. Shankly

Tips? We got the whole shaft.

Amanda Harletsch

Mr. Shankly this time you got it right!

hotstepper

does my butt look big in this bonus?

fuboy

-shoves porn into desk drawer-

So, what's the topic of discussion?

Guest

When the Yankees win, we all lose.

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/11/when_the_yankees_win_the_stock_market_doesnt.php

marcasm

There are conflicting reports on this.

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/yankee-win-may-favor-wall-streets-bulls/

mdow

As someone on the Atlantic site already mentioned, most retarded article ever written, by far. I'll let you try to connect the dots on the deduction I'm making about you.

Guest

Like I really care what an anonymous idgit on the WWW thinks. If you had an ounce of decency, you would have been at the Veteran's Day parade today instead of sucking on the Yankees dick.

MLHencken

Just proves that the brokers still paid, even when things suck.

TrippinJoJo

hot pic

endsim

kill the rich

valeriob

One problem... After you've "killed the rich", there will just be more to go. They're the richest of the non-killed rich. So on and so forth.

Assclown.