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Goldman Sachs earnings fell sharply in the second quarter, hurt by its $550 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and a U.K. payroll tax. But on an adjusted basis, the investment bank's profits easily topped expectations.

CEOs at some large public companies earn more per day than their employees earn over the course of an entire year. We took a look at some of the country's most well-known companies and calculated just how many workers the CEO's annual paycheck could afford to hire.

Goldman Sachs Group (GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein is getting a $9 million stock bonus for 2009, a modest payday by Wall Street standards that appears aimed at quelling criticism of the bank's compensation practices. Blankfein will receive more than 58,000 shares of restricted stock that can't be cashed...

Rabble-rousing musician Billy Bragg is urging U.K. citizens to withhold their taxes unless the government stops the Royal Bank of Scotland from awarding $2.4 billion in bonuses to its bankers. After a bailout, RBS is now government owned.

To understand why the American public is so enraged by Wall Street's bonus structure, one needn't look further than New York-based Morgan Stanley. Despite a dismal year in 2009, the company paid out record bonuses and salaries.

Even though it's still on life support from the federal government, Citigroup paid close to $9 million each to five top executives in 2009. But not much of it was in cash -- the compensation was primarily in shares of restricted stock which can't be sold immediately.

Hell hath no fury like the American public scorned. In a stunning climbdown, Goldman Sachs (GS) has succumbed to popular outrage, announcing Thursday that its top 30 executives won't receive wads of bonus cash in their stocking this Christmas, but rather stock that cannot be sold for five years....

It would appear that France and Britain are on the same page when it comes to bankers' bonuses. Their leaders certainly are -- literally. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown co-wrote an opinion piece in Thursday's Wall Street Journal calling for governments...

Ranked as the No. 2 company to work for by Fortune magazine, St. Louis-based financial services firm Edward Jones, which has continued to expand during the economic downturn has no plans to slow growth anytime soon. In fact, with about 11,000 branches, serving more than 7 million individual...

We all know that Wall Street's bad bets nearly brought the financial system to its knees last year. Then U.S. taxpayers footed the bill to bail out Wall Street -- taking on obligations potentially as high as $23.7 trillion, leading to a $1.4 trillion federal deficit, and $12 trillion in national...