3.01.2011

My memory is failing me, alas

Top 10 ways to spend a Goldman Sachs bonus - CSMonitor.com

Besides chest-thumping fourth-quarter earnings, Goldman Sachs also announced its bonus pool on Thursday. At $16.2 billion, the total is 20 percent lower than the firm's 2007 level but still amounts to an average of just under $500,000 per employee.

That—the quote from the CSMonitor above—was published on January 21 this year, just a little more than a month before David Brooks' column in the NYTimes yesterday in which, with regard to the current deficit–cutting craze:

The New Normal - NYTimes.com

The sacrifice should be spread widely and fairly.

So there's my problem. I don't remember David Brooks saying anything at all about spreading that Goldman Sachs wealth fairly, unfairly, or any which way at all. But surely he must have, don't you think? A fair guy like David Brooks?

 

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