During his tenure as CEO [of Lehman], Fuld made $490 million (before taxes) cashing in stock options and stock he received as compensation. A lot of employees, whose wealth was tied to the company's stock, were financially eviscerated when Lehman bombed. But Fuld is unlikely to show up applying for food stamps.
...As Treasury Secretary (and former Goldman Sachs chief executive) Paulson recently said, "Raw capitalism is dead."
*Paul Celan: A Life*, by Anna Arno
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I do not think it is crazy to regard Celan as standing in the very top tier
of poets, noting the poems must be read in the German language. Who has
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