To be sure, the profits currently being earned by the leading financial firms are dizzyingly high. Goldman Sachs, the venerable Wall Street firm at the epicenter of financial globalization, paid more than $16 billion dollars in compensation to its 25,000 employees in 2006, and spun out another $9 billion for its shareholders – a total that is greater than the annual income of most African countries.
确实，居于前列的金融公司目前所赚取的利润高得惊人。位于金融全球化中心的受人尊敬的华尔街公司高盛2006年向其2万5千名雇员支付了超出160亿美元的报酬，另外还向其股东支付了90亿美元，其总和超过了绝大多数非洲国家的年收入。