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&lt;p&gt;Remember all that talk and those regulations and that little AIG fiasco concerning that five-letter word (b-o-n-u-s) that lay folks equated with greed and hubris and part of the problem that led to the recession we&#39;re currently in?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, that was then&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/span&gt;when some banks were cuffed by something called TARP&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/span&gt;and this is now&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8212;&lt;/span&gt;when banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan have shed their TARP restraints and are back to killing it in the markets. In fact, they&#39;re making such a killing that this year could be the biggest yet&amp;nbsp;for bonuses at some of the top investment banks in the world. And the reason isn&#39;t that the deal market has returned to its pre-recession level (though it is inching closer) but that there are now fewer players at the table eating the investment banking revenue pie (word is, of the M&amp;amp;A cake, Morgan Stanley is currently out-feasting its arch enemy Goldman; look for this brawl to go down to the wire come December).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, in case you were curious, the Oracle of Omaha aka Warren Buffett is not only killing it but slaughtering it. Remember that $5 billion investment Mr. Buffett made in Goldman Sachs last&amp;nbsp;September&amp;nbsp;that did not appear to be all the great at the time? Well, the Oracle has already made about $1 billion on that one, thus far.&lt;/p&gt;

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