Put Wall Street bonuses to work by rewarding the watchdogs
Wall Street executives are getting plenty of criticism for handing out $18 billion in bonuses to themselves last year. But maybe there’s a way to put bonuses to good use?by paying them to regulators who help keep the system in check. Andrew Ross Sorkin, chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for the New York Times, joins Adaora and Alvin Hall to talk about the idea of rewarding watchdogs with cold, hard cash.
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