With a $2 million base salary, the 2011 pay package for Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, so far totals $9 million. Goldman has not yet disclosed the size of his cash bonus.

A look back on our reporting of the past week’s highs and lows in finance.

The clause would have prohibited the company’s shareholders from filing class-action lawsuits, forcing them into a confidential arbitration process instead.

His hedge fund, Harbinger Capital Partners, lost 46.6 percent last year, as his biggest – and most controversial – investment took a beating, according to investors who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Barbara J. Desoer, who served as a point person for the bank amid fierce criticism of its foreclosure practices, is retiring.