Stock markets

[akarunway 1]

WTF is wrong w/ this picture? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahE8xVisWsbE&refer=worldwide vs. this picture http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071119/ap_on_re_us/food_pantries_shortage_2 Sad

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[Lefty 0]

It's easily solvable. The stockbrokers just need to shop at the grocery store instead of the food bank.

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-Calvin

[kelpdiver 2]

"Most of Merrill Lynch's businesses are actually doing well, and so what you have to do in that circumstance is to pay the people who are performing,''

These people don't work very nice hours. They tend to burn out and retire around the same time as most pro athletes.

If food pantries are low on food, why do you link it to this particular group of people rather than actors who get $20M/movie, or rock stars, or any other highly compensated group?

[livendive 8]

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If food pantries are low on food, why do you link it to this particular group of people rather than actors who get $20M/movie, or rock stars, or any other highly compensated group?

Perhaps because actors, rock stars, and professional athletes are paid to entertain, while stock brokers are paid to make money for their investors who will then have enough to donate to charity?

I actually have no idea why the OP linked the two, I'm just feeling disagreeable and it seems like a plausible stance.

Blues,
Dave

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(drink Mountain Dew)

[Andrewwhyte 1]

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... while stock brokers are paid to make money for their investors,...

Stock brokers are. Brokerage executives on the other hand, are paid to make money for their shareholders. Apparently they have being doing that quite well.