Comments on: No Bonus For You . . . http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/no-bonus-for-you/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:51:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: jeff in indy http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/no-bonus-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-242718 jeff in indy Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:46:28 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46419#comment-242718 somehow i can't grace barry as 'the big O." takes away from the great accomplishments of mr. robertson. barry's moniker should be 'the big 0" (as in ZERO). somehow i can’t grace barry as ‘the big O.” takes away from the great accomplishments of mr. robertson.
barry’s moniker should be ‘the big 0″ (as in ZERO).

]]> By: Jojo http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/no-bonus-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-242691 Jojo Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:31:33 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46419#comment-242691 Oh yeah? http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20091209/cx_tt_uc/tt20091209 Oh yeah?

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20091209/cx_tt_uc/tt20091209

]]> By: bsneath http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/no-bonus-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-242669 bsneath Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:59:40 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46419#comment-242669 Great cartoon. I hope the big O sees it. Great cartoon. I hope the big O sees it.

]]> By: bsneath http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/no-bonus-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-242668 bsneath Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:54:57 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46419#comment-242668 @bman Excellent chart - good information For certain, taxes will increase in the future. Either the income tax brackets will return to levels seen in the past or a value added tax will be imposed. The former will redistribute wealth and the latter is regressive for the middle class and poor. No doubt it will be the latter. @bman

Excellent chart – good information

For certain, taxes will increase in the future. Either the income tax brackets will return to levels seen in the past or a value added tax will be imposed.

The former will redistribute wealth and the latter is regressive for the middle class and poor. No doubt it will be the latter.

]]> By: bman http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/no-bonus-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-242659 bman Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:59:02 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46419#comment-242659 I got into the subject of taxes on fat cats in the US with a friend whose insight I value the other day. He went off on a tangent that sort of caught my interest in retrospect. He was saying that what got us out of the great depression, wasn't directly the WWII, but that the war gave us cover to lower our standard of living. His argument wasn't that we could do without all the stuff we were accustomed to, but that the war gave us a reason to do without. He listed rationing of gas recycling of tin cans and a bunch of other examples of things Americans did with their loved ones, and the war effort in mind. Along that train of thought I thought I'd put in a graph for the history of income tax for the top bracket income in the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarginalIncomeTax.svg I got into the subject of taxes on fat cats in the US with a friend whose insight I value the other day. He went off on a tangent that sort of caught my interest in retrospect. He was saying that what got us out of the great depression, wasn’t directly the WWII, but that the war gave us cover to lower our standard of living. His argument wasn’t that we could do without all the stuff we were accustomed to, but that the war gave us a reason to do without. He listed rationing of gas recycling of tin cans and a bunch of other examples of things Americans did with their loved ones, and the war effort in mind.

Along that train of thought I thought I’d put in a graph for the history of income tax for the top bracket income in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarginalIncomeTax.svg

]]> By: flipspiceland http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/12/no-bonus-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-242655 flipspiceland Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:49:23 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=46419#comment-242655 Why does TheBamster resemble TheBamster but Lord Blankfein, J. Dimon, and Ben Bernanke all look like coneheads? Even the comics have to put their derision thru a filter. Why does TheBamster resemble TheBamster but Lord Blankfein, J. Dimon, and Ben Bernanke all look like coneheads?

Even the comics have to put their derision thru a filter.

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