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							<title><![CDATA[Bonuses and Bailouts Should Never Mix]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/opinion/end-bonuses-for-bankers.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nassim Taleb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I have a solution for the problem of bankers who take risks that threaten the general public: Eliminate bonuses. More than three years since the global financial crisis started, financial institutions are still blowing themselves up. The latest, MF Global, filed for bankruptcy protection...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wall Street Bonuses Let Us All Down]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Nassim Taleb</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the arguments one hears in the compensation debate is that the bonus system used by Wall Street "&ldquo; as John Thain, former Merrill Lynch chief executive, put it "&ldquo; is there to "reward talent". While I find this notion of "talent" debatable, I fully agree that incentives...]]></description>
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