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Showing videos filed under: bonuses
The F Word: Bonuses for Bosses at Killer Corporations?
April 4, 2011Eleven workers dead, untold volumes of sea-life poisoned and more than 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the sea. If that's what a historically good safety record looks like at TransOcean, I'd hate to see a bad year.Fighting Foreclosures: It Starts On Wall Street
December 17, 2010Wall Street is set to award $143 billion--with a B--in bonuses this year, while foreclosures continue unabated (and often undocumented) around the country. Protests are continuing around the country too, though, and Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter notes that when her family couldn't get a regulator to examine her family's foreclosure, "What we went to was a grassroots organization."Megan Carpentier, Fighting Foreclosure, and Bradley Manning
December 16, 2010Congress is passing tax cuts for the rich as well as everyone else this week, while Don't Ask Don't Tell is headed for a stand-alone vote in the Senate. Is gridlock over, or are these just issues that actually have some bipartisan support? Meanwhile, Julian Assange may be out on bail, but the debate over the charges against him still rages, and Megan Carpentier of TPM reminds us that it's possible for the arrest to be politically motivated and the charges still not be false.The F Word: Better Uses for Bankers' Billions
February 23, 2010What could be done with $20 billion? A whole lot of Wall Street bankers are about to find out. $20 billion's what the New York Comptroller's office says the Street's bonuses bounced back to in 2009 -- up 17 percent from the year of the crash.The Spectacle of Sports, Maude Barlow, and Frank Schaeffer
February 23, 2010The Olympics have seen more than their share of controversy this year, from the death of a Georgian luger early on to the ongoing debate about policing, spending and co-opting Native land for sports. But many people still love the games, and tune in to watch sports that get forgotten the other three years--or to see dream teams put together to compete for gold.Wall Street Recovery, Main Street Inequality
February 2, 2010We've all seen the headlines about record bonuses on Wall Street just a year after record bailouts with taxpayer dollars. And we all know that the rest of the country is hardly feeling the recovery. But even right here in New York City, recovery hasn't yet trickled down, and inequality is just getting worse.Urban Inequality, Rev. James Forbes, and Citizens United
February 1, 2010We've all seen the headlines about record bonuses on Wall Street just a year after record bailouts with taxpayer dollars. And we all know that the rest of the country is hardly feeling the recovery. But even right here in New York City, recovery hasn't yet trickled down, and inequality is just getting worse.Secret Global Empire(s), Collapse, and Veterans Day
November 11, 2009Conspiracy theories abound on the left and the right--the "Birthers" are only the most recent incarnation. But there are plenty of scary secrets out there that are real and well-documented, from Max Blumenthal's investigations into the religious right to Jeremy Scahill's work on Blackwater. It can be hard to tell where the conspiracy theories begin and the truth ends. Our guests today talk about shady global conspiracies, corporate overlords, and the military-industrial complex, and what we can do about any of it.The F Word: No Armistice in War on Poor
November 11, 2009Armistice Day reminds us that when wars end, the winners and losers are supposed to make peace. For the first time, in 2009, leaders of World War II enemies, Germany and France, commemorated the date together as a sign of new mutual respect. But this week also marked the ten-year anniversary of a different kind of war -- a war on Americans' assets and the poor. Ten years later, while the winners and losers are obvious, there's no armistice in sight.The F Word: Mad at AIG? Don't Forget Geithner and Summers
March 18, 2009Americans are mad. Mad that bonuses of any kind were paid to workers in failed companies out of government bail-out funds. But if you think it's crazy to reward those who got us into this mess, you'd be mad to get hung up only on AIG.
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