A bipolar world

In Dec. 2006, the 5 brokerage firms in New York - Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Lehman brothers, Bear Sterns and Goldman Sachs - paid out $36 billion as bonus to their brokers. Their compensation and bonus together roughly are equal to Vietnam's GDP.

We are living in a bipolar world with huge wealth concentration.

Source: Barrons, Jan 15, 2007