Nice perks if you can get them. A SEC filing from Bank of America reveals the goodies that come with being a banking exec. "Homeowners who can't relocate because they're stuck with mortgage payments on a home they can't sell would lust after even a pale imitation of the $2.6 million relocation deal ...

Bailout Kings Goldman Sachs is a major shareholder in Burger King? Who knew? Brave New Films and the SEIU did, and they're not pleased with the fact that Goldman Sachs has been converting billions in TARP bailout funds into executive bonuses (read: stealing the money) while the workers at one of the...

Cross-posted from Congress Matters. If you've got a Daily Kos account, you've got a Congress Matters account. Log in with your existing Daily Kos user name and password. Seems some executive pay limits for TARP recipients did survive the conference after all: A provision buried deep inside the $787 ...

Aaargh NUMBERS ARE CONFUSING. This morning we have two (2) bits of information regarding what will happen to America’s fabulously wealthy Wall Street executives if and when the stimulus bill becomes a law. But it is sort of complicated, and who knows, these provisions seem to change by the hou...

With hysteria running wild about paying anyone associated with the financial services industry a bonus, news that Israel’s best run and profitable bank, Mizrahi Tefahot, is looking to pay bonuses is big news. With countries looking to implement US Prez. Obama’s call for salary limits and...

Taxpayers have been crying foul for weeks now after it was revealed that executives of failing financial institutions were still being rewarded with extraordinary pay outs. How big were the pay outs? If you include stock options, bonuses and perks, the chief executives of 10 banks which received $16...

A step in the right direction. The Obama administration is expected to impose a cap of $500,000 for top executives at companies that receive large amounts of bailout money, according to people familiar with the plan... Executives would also be prohibited from receiving any bonuses above their base p...

Filed under: Deals With stock prices plunging, many investors are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore. Brad M. Barber, a professor of finance at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management told (subscription required) The Wall Street Journal that hedge funds a...

The 116 banks receiving emergency bailout funds from the government doled out some $1.6 billion in executive compensation in 2007, even as these corporate leaders led their companies and the US financial system over the brink. The same is seen at multinational US automakers, where GM CEO Waggoner's ...

Filed under: Housing, Recession, Financial Crisis This post is part of AOL Money & Finance's Best & Worst in Money 2008 feature. The year 2008 brought the word "greed" to new levels with major companies going bankrupt thanks to the greed of their top execs, who were more worried about lining...