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Still seeking rewards

February
11

You’d think by now that Wall Street would undertstand that it is reward enough these days to have a job. A pay check. Particularly when your firm has been run so poorly that it needed a government bailout to stay afloat.

No.

Morgan Stanley and Citigroup’s Smith Barney—which together have gotten at least $60 billion in bailout money and which will be merged—will reward their financial advisers with retention payments, according to the Huffington Post. Do these advisers really have anywhere to go?

At what point does Wall Street start realizing that the rules have changed?

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 at 7:35 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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Noreen O'DonnellNoreen O'Donnell For the last 20 years, Noreen O'Donnell has written about Hillary Clinton's run for the Senate, rebuilding Ground Zero, the Korean immigrants who travel north each day from Queens to work in nail salons, deadly runaway fire trucks and other stories in Westchester and Putnam counties. Now she's a columnist.



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