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We don’t like to concede that a primary cause of the financial crisis was a Wall Street compensation system that rewarded executives, bankers and traders for taking big risks with other people’s money without holding them the least bit accountable. And because we don’t like to discuss such things in polite company, it is certainly unsurprising that six years later, not a single fundamental aspect of how Wall Street pays its top people has changed. The incentive system that handed out millions of dollars in bonuses to bankers and traders who packaged shoddy mortgages into securities and sold them as...

JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon is set to get a raise, even though the bank was forced to pay billions in fines and settlements last year. The New York Times reported that the board of JPMorgan Chase has approved the increase for 2013, although it did not give any details on the amount of the increase. […] Dimon, CEO and chairman, had his 2012 pay slashed by about half to $11.5 million after JPMorgan suffered estimated trading loss of nearly $6 billion during the year attributed to a London trader known as the London Whale. …