中财网赞美窗帘的语句:The 1% Speaks
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The 1% Speaks
By KELLY EGGERS
Bankers of the 1% have heard the cries of the 99%, and several of them have decided it's time to fight back.
JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, hedge fund manager John Paulson and John Allison, former chairman of North Carolina-based BB&T Corp., are just a few of the finance industry's big names who are defending wealthy businesspeople. They argue that the current banking system, and the rich who are a part of it, benefit society and create a healthier economy.
Dimon, who earned $23 million in 2010, recently spoke out on the subject at a New York City investors' conference, according to Bloomberg. "Acting like everyone who's been successful is bad and because you're rich you're bad, I don't understand it," Dimon is quoted in Bloomberg as saying. "Sometimes there's a bad apple, yet we denigrate the whole."
Career success, they argue, shouldn't be vilified or disparaged. New regulations within the Dodd-Frank Act that require publicly traded firms to indicate the CEO-to-average-employee pay ratio in their earnings, Allison argues, are an "attack on the productive."
While some of the finance industry's affluent executives, most notably Warren Buffett, have called for tax increases on the wealthiest, voices from the top speaking out against the 99% have grown louder as the "Occupy Movement" has burgeoned from its humble beginnings in Lower Manhattan this fall.
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