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Power Point: Greed is back

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April 27, 2009, 3:37 AM ET
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“Like everything on Wall Street, they’re starting to sin again.”

– Brad Hintz, financial-services industry analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein, in a front-page Sunday New York Times story about executive pay at the big banks.  Paychecks and bonuses are ballooning again. They’re on track to match 2007 levels, before the market meltdown began. Crisis, what crisis?

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