Today, more than 110 million people will tune in to watch Super Bowl XLVIII, as the Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey. The big game will be broadcast on Fox. One question comes to mind as I write this post…who gives a fuck about the Super Bowl?
The chief executive of the biggest U.S. bank received a huge salary increase last year, even as the bank paid billions of dollars in fines for financial irregularities it committed.
JPMorgan Chase said Friday it paid its top official, Jamie Dimon, $20 million last year, up 74 percent from his $11.5 million salary for 2012.
The New York bank’s board had cut Dimon’s salary in half a year ago as the financial institution faced a range of disputes with U.S. and overseas financial regulators. In the last year, the bank has paid more than $23 billion to settle the regulatory and criminal investigations.
In boosting his pay, the bank cited Dimon’s settling of the cases, as well as his “sustained long-term performance.”
Three-Hundred-Thousand residents in and around the U.S. city of Charleston, West Virginia, have been left without access to clean water, after a chemical spill contaminated the Elk River. Schools and businesses remain closed as a result of the spill, which has stained the area’s water blue-green and made it smell like licorice.
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