Nerves may start to fray if sterling remains at its current tourist-hurting levels, or appreciates even further.
"Right now, the Republican Party is hurting at all levels of government," he said, adding, "It's critical we have someone strong running for governor, and I can't think of anyone who would be more popular than Giuliani".
In each letter, Dimon brags that the bank absorbed Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual without hurting its capital levels.
Salary freezes hurt low-level employees more than high-paid investment bankers and brokers, whose compensation is mostly from year-end bonuses and commissions.
But a new study disputes this notion, arguing that the slump has hurt low-level workers the most and that they account for the overwhelming majority of the city's unemployed.
As for the notion that options are primarily a rank-and-file perquisite -- and that abandoning them would hurt lower-level employees -- the study instead confirmed what many investors have suspected: in recent years, most options have gone to top executives.
(That she was also female and relatively young didn't hurt the level of coverage).
His members, many of which rely on minimum-wage employees, and others argue that hiking base pay would hurt entry-level workers, such as teenagers, and the cost would be passed on to consumers in higher prices.
Since Enron's collapse, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers have said that some pension rules should be changed to prevent bankruptcy filings from hurting only lower-level employees.
Labor groups and some employees say the low staffing levels are hurting the in-store experience.
Certain areas, like North Dakota's Bakken play, or Texas's Eagle Ford play, are hurting at these price levels.
