Great piece in the NYT showing how the bosses who led Citigroup and Merrill Lynch to losses in the tens of billions of dollars are being courted for top jobs at other firms. However employment prospects are not nearly so promising for those lower down the rung, who lost their jobs due to cost-cutting.
--Dean Baker
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