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  • Executives from some of the major investment and commercial banks involved in the financial upheaval and bailout earned hefty paychecks last year, according to proxy statements outlining their salaries, bonuses and stock options:

    * Lehman Brothers Chairman and CEO Richard Fuld Jr. made $34 million in 2007. Lehman (OTC: LEHMQ) filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection earlier this month.
    * Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), which Sunday gained Federal Reserve Bank approval to become a bank holding company, paid its chairman and CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, $70 million last year. Co-Chief Operating Officers Gary Cohn and Jon Winkereid were paid $72.5 million and $71 million, respectively.
    * American International Group’s chief executive, Martin Sullivan, got a $14 million compensation package in 2007. He was ousted in June. The insurance giant (NYSE:AIG) is on the receiving end of an $85 billion federal bailout. Edward Liddy took over as AIG’s chief executive earlier this month.

  • She is an idiot.

  • Sad!

  • Of the 2380 delegates at the 2008 Republican National Convention only 36
    are African American. That's down from 167 in 2004.

  • yes yes yes !!!! A change is coming!

  • It is up and running!!!!

  • The PBS Vote 2008 web site aggregates and highlights the best public media coverage of the 2008 election. By gathering video, news, and online tools from national programs and local stations, PBS Vote 2008 brings in-depth election-related content from PBS' trusted news and public affairs producers to light in a new way.

    Through a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 12 public media organizations have collaborated on a suite of tools to educate the public around key election issues. Partners in the collaboration include: PRX, Public Interactive, National Public Radio, Capitol News Connection, American Public Media, PBS, KQED, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Tools from these producers are available for syndication, so you can take them and add them to your web site or social networking page.

    PBS is a leading provider of digital learning content for preK-12 educators. Visit our PBS Teachers Vote 2008 micro site for lesson plans, interactives and additional resources for teaching and learning about the 2008 election.

  • Twitter, the "microblogging" website that allows people to share their thoughts in 140 characters or less, has reported a 631 per cent surge in UK visitor numbers in the last year.
    # Is Twitter the new Facebook?

    The website, which is free to join, allows users to send short messages, known as "tweets", to a network of friends and acquaintences. There's a 140-character limit on messages, so tweets have to be kept short and snappy.
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    More than three million tweets are sent every day, and 10 per cent of all Twitter users are based in the UK. Even Gordon Brown is a fan - Number 10 has its own Twitter account at twitter.com/downingstreet, which provides up-to-the-minute updates on Government policy and the prime minister's agenda.

  • The recent Sunday Times investigation into Republican lobbyist Stephen Payne's business deals has offered disturbing insight that goes far beyond the funding of the George W. Bush presidential library.

    Payne made news last week for essentially offering access to upper-level Bush Administration officials in exchange for a large donation to Bush's presidential library fund and a larger fee for his international consulting firm, Worldwide Strategic Partners (WSP).

  • “YOU’RE a towel.”
    07.08.08
    China’s New Currency

    Posted in Beijing, Money / Banks, Olympics, Rumors at 17:42 by SHTig

    Who doesn’t love the feel of new money? On July 8, exactly one month before the start of the Olympic games, the People’s Bank of China issued 6 million 10 yuan notes. They are 29th Olympiad Commemorative notes (see pictures)

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    This article says that you can exchange old notes for new ones at any of China’s Big Four banks in Beijing, but that there may be problems doing so in other places. Why? “Because of the earthquake.” My initial scan of the Chinese blogs suggests that there are shortages in availability of these notes and that some cities don’t have any at all. Hoarding could take place. The picture in this story shows people in a long line waiting to exchange bank notes. Heaven help you if you have any real banking to do in China this week.

    Of note, this is the only bill in circulation that does not have Mao Zedong’s image on it. From this I predict Mao will be largest fazed out of upcoming Chinese currency (but not eliminated). This is a very logical first step toward achieving that. It will also be interesting to see if a larger denomination Chinese note is brought into circulation. There have been rumors in the past of an RMB 500 note. The current top valued note is only RMB 100 (less than US$15), though personally I like that and don’t hope to see an RMB 500 note any time soon.

    10 July - edited 60million to 6 million notes that were printed (600万). nator emailed me to point out that is only one bill per 200 people.
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