Wall Street's boundless greed and self-indulgence

AIG, Merrill Lynch reward abject failure will million dollar bonuses.

This editorial is about some of the ways companies have been spending their bailout money. The bailout was supposed to help struggling companies and give our economy a boost, but some people have been using the money for their personal gain.
Executives have spent the money on everything from vacations to expensive toilets.
The writer seemed like he knew a lot about the subject, but I can't get over the typo at the top.
I'm pretty sure AIG and Merrill Lynch reward failure with bonuses.

Also, I posted on the site as KCTee.

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Kym FoxFebruary 7, 2009 at 2:31 PM
OH MY GOSH! (And if you know me, I just about never use caps or an exclamation point.) I can't believe that typo. I bet they hate that. And you would think they'd have fixed it by now. So, good catch and nice evaluation.
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Monday, February 2, 2009

Money down the toilet

Wall Street's boundless greed and self-indulgence

AIG, Merrill Lynch reward abject failure will million dollar bonuses.

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