{"id":187819,"date":"2011-02-24T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/24\/not-enough-bullets-66\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:04:00","slug":"not-enough-bullets-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/02\/24\/not-enough-bullets-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Enough Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/feb\/24\/rbs-bankers-bonuses-despite-loss\">RBS bankers get \u00a3950m in bonuses despite \u00a31.1bn loss<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 100 bankers at Royal Bank of Scotland were paid more than \u00a31m last year and total bonus payouts reached nearly \u00a31bn \u2013 even though the bailed-out bank reported losses of \u00a31.1bn for 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, said the number of millionaires was lower than a year ago and said a quarter of the group&#8217;s 18,700 investment bankers would not receive a bonus from the \u00a3950m payout pool agreed with UK Financial Investments, which controls the taxpayer&#8217;s 83% stake in the bank. Unions were baffled that any bankers were getting bonuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The unions are not the only ones who are baffled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RBS bankers get \u00a3950m in bonuses despite \u00a31.1bn loss: More than 100 bankers at Royal Bank of Scotland were paid more than \u00a31m last year and total bonus payouts reached nearly \u00a31bn \u2013 even though the bailed-out bank reported losses of \u00a31.1bn for 2010. The chairman, Sir Philip Hampton, said the number of millionaires was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,975,969,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-employment","category-evil","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}