Banking System professionals …. Oxymoron?

On Marketwatch.com, David Weidner asks:

If Wall Street bonuses totaled $18 billion but the industry showed a net loss of $35 billion, …[in New York]… does that mean bonus payouts will double next year if the industry loses $70 billion?

I suspected that they didn’t live in the same reality that we do, but now I know THEY ARE LIVING IN AN ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE! They get a bonus for losing money?! WOW!