As investment giants teeter on the edge of collapse, jeopardizing the U.S. financial system (including pension funds, small business and individuals with not a lot of financial wiggle room) our colleague Nick Penniman at the American News Project turned his calculator to the men who got very rich while their firms crumbled.

Federal regulators may be scrambling to avert a disaster, but I'm guessing the CEOs won't have to give back their millions and billions earned on some rotten decisions.