{"id":5882,"date":"2010-01-21T20:19:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2010-01-21T20:19:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:19:20","slug":"the-international-welfare-state-for-super-rich-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/21\/the-international-welfare-state-for-super-rich-bankers\/","title":{"rendered":"The international welfare state for super-rich bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1245005\/Goldman-Sachs-slashes-bonuses-staff-posts-8-3billion-profits.html\">Goldman Sachs slashes bonuses for top staff as it posts \u00a38.3billion profits  | Mail Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Goldman Sachs is to slash the size of the bonuses awarded to its top British bankers by hundreds of thousands of pounds, it emerged today.<\/p>\n<p>This means that its 32,500 staff  -  more than 5,000 of them in London  -  will get an average $500,000 (\u00a3309,000) even after bonuses are trimmed.<\/p>\n<p>TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: 'Goldman Sachs wants us to believe its bonuses are modest. But the truth is we have set up an international welfare state for super-rich bankers.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well said Brendan.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I advise the TUC, but not on this issue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goldman Sachs slashes bonuses for top staff as it posts \u00a38.3billion profits | Mail Online. Goldman Sachs is to slash the size of the bonuses<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2010\/01\/21\/the-international-welfare-state-for-super-rich-bankers\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}