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CEOs Need to Run for Sheriff Just Once

Don McNay | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, CEO Pay, Big Three Automakers, CEO Salaries, Chysler, Ford, Republican Governors Association, Aig, General Motors, Ernie Fletcher, Ceos, Kentucky, Financial Crisis, CEO Compensation, Lyndon Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Sheriff, Automakers, Bailout, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Auto Industry, Business News
Don McNay

The financial system was supposedly broke. America wants the CEOs begging for cash to act like broke people.

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Cap Executive Pay

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Executive Pay, CEO Salaries, Business, Ceos, Business Ethics, Financial Crisis, Business News
Amitai Etzioni

A salary cap would leave CEOs free to do what is best for their corporations, the economy, and families -- rather than focus on ways to jack up the price of their stock each quarter.

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Outrage Growing Over Executive Pay

Washington Post | Heather Landy | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, US Economy, Wall Street Pay, Executive Pay, Business News

The public's indignation over lavish executive pay has rippled beyond the circles of activist investors and corporate governance watchdogs, who for ye...

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A Congressional Ultimatum for CEOs

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Investing, Say on Pay, CEO Pay, Drum Major Institute, Deregulation, Free Market, Executive Compensation, Barack Obama, Blockbuster, New York City, Economy, Jobs, Financial Crisis, Business News
Harry Moroz

This morning, Senator Chris Dodd warned that Congress might take a step that would send shivers down the spines of every CEO: federal caps on executive pay.

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A Few Reforms Are Simply Not Enough

Gerald McEntee | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: CEO Pay, Unemployment, Economy, Jobs, Economic Crisis, State and Local Government, Foreclosures, Economic Stimulus, Politics News
Gerald McEntee

More than 750,000 people have lost their jobs since the beginning of the year -- 160,000 last month alone, the most in more than 5 years.

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Administration Disguising Simple Plan As Complicated To Trick Tax Payers

Denis Campbell | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home

Read More: CEO Pay, Economic Bailout, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Blockbuster Video, Home News
Denis Campbell

They took assets (mortgages) re-packaged them as securities (sub prime paper) and sold them making huge commissions. Now they want a package in which the government buys the bad debt paper while they make money on the transaction, and a commission when the loan is re-sold, while the taxpayers hold the bag.

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Getting Wall Street Pay Reform Right

Robert Weissman | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Bailout, Income Inequality, Economy, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Executive Compensation, Business News
Robert Weissman

The Wall Street salary structure has helped set the standard for CEO pay across the economy, and helped establish a culture where executives consider outlandish pay packages the norm.

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Bush May Be Stupid, But He's No Fool: The Bailout and the Final Repeal of the 20th Century

Pete Cenedella | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, CEO Pay, Social Security, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, New Deal, George W. Bush, CEO Compensation, Republican Party, Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Politics News
Pete Cenedella

Bush is playing dumb so we won't notice that his final stroke in office will be to make the Republican Revolution permanent and impossible to repeal for decades to come.

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Don't Bum Rush a Bad Deal

Charlie Cray | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Henry Paulson, Banks, CEO Pay, Mccain, Obama, Bear Stearns Bailout, Derivatives, Wall Street Crisis, Economic Crisis, Economy, Business News
Charlie Cray

They're talking about pushing through the largest bailout in history without any hearings. No time to debate the issues. Just ram it through. That says a lot by itself. Shock doctrine, anyone?

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Executive Pay and "The Market Economy"

Robert Weissman | Posted 09.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Tax Loophole, CEO Pay, Tax Subsidy, Income Inequality, Executive Compensation, Economy, Business News
Robert Weissman

It's pretty hard these days to justify astronomical executive pay. In 2007, the average CEO's pay of $10.5 million was 344 times higher on average than the average worker's wage.

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Leadership is More Than Profit

Margaret Blair and Ralph Gomory | Posted 09.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Free Trade, u.s. Economy Problems, Globalization, Corporate Responsibility, Shareholder Value, Economics, Corporate America, Economy, CEO Pay, Recession, Business News
Margaret Blair and Ralph Gomory

In the rush to globalization, the United States has tossed aside a crucial principle that guided the economic prosperity of the twentieth century: co...

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High Flyers and Soaring Inequality

Robert Weissman | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Wealth Inequality, Private Jets, Global Warming, Income Inequality, Business News
Robert Weissman

Soaring private jet use reflects skyrocketing wealth inequality, in the United States and globally. Also, private jet use is subsidized as well by commercial air traffic.

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John McCain's New Populism?

Diane Francis | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Greed, Wall Street Bonuses, John McCain, CEO Pay, Wall Street Regulations, Excess CEO Compensation, Lobbyists, CEO Compensation, Shareholder Rights, Corporate Power, Shareholder Value, Shareholder Democracy, Barack Obama, Tax Cuts Fo Rthe Rich, Business Roundtable, Boards of Directors, Profits, Corporate America, Economic Reform, Tax Cuts, Business News
Diane Francis

McCain can "pledge" to reform Wall Street business practices all he wants, but he hasn't walked the walk in the Senate in past years, nor has his party ever done so.

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Top Paid CEOs: Who Earned What

LA Times | Scott DeCarlo | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Business News

After a 38% collective pay raise in 2006, chief executives of the 500 biggest companies in the U.S. (as measured by a composite ranking of sales, prof...

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Easiest Job on Planet: Bank CEO

Henry Blodget | Posted 04.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Bank CEOs, CEO Pay, Finance, Market Crisis, CEO Bonuses, Banking, Financial Crisis, CEO Compensation, Fortune Magazine, Business News
Henry Blodget

Take the job after an economic downturn, announce "new era" for Your Bank, have PR people place a Fortune cover story about you, and sit in your chair for three years and collect at least $50 million.

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CEO's Pay Could Be Partly Determined By Shareholders' Votes

AP | Posted 04.12.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Pay Increases, CEO Spending Shareholders and CEO's, What Your Ceo Makes, Business News

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To Reduce Economic Inequality, Protect Workers' Rights

Stewart Acuff | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: CEO Pay, Efca, Employee Free Choice Act, Politics News
Stewart Acuff

By Stewart Acuff, Organizing Director, AFL-CIO, and Sheldon Friedman, Research Coordinator, AFL-CIO Voice@Work Campaign A hearing Friday by the House...

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John Sweeney | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Edwards, Hillary, Obama, Clinton, Barack, Social Security, CEO Pay, Wages, Employment, Middle Class, Federal Reserve, Globalization, Jobs, Afl-Cio, Democrats, Income, Recession, Labor, Wall Street, Tax, Climate Change, Unemployment Insurance, Union, Global Warming, Politics News
John Sweeney

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Is Wasserstein's Bonus Over The Top?

New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Wasserstein Salary, Wasserstein Bonus, Lazard, Wall Street, Bruce Wasserstein, Business News

Bruce Wasserstein is an important rainmaker at Lazard, the investment bank he runs. But, wonders Breakingviews, is he really worth more to the busine...

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Merrill Execs Received Zero Bonuses For 2007

Reuters | Posted 01.31.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Robert McCann, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street Bonuses, Rosemary Berkery, Greg Fleming, Bonuses, Business News

Merrill Lynch & Co Inc (MER.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday top executives did not receive bonuses for 2007 after the world's largest b...

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The Shameful State of the Union

Robert Weissman | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Subprime Mortgages, Defense Spending, Poverty, Corporations, State of the Union, Business News
Robert Weissman

The concentration of wealth and income reflects a major shift over the last three decades in how the United States shares its earnings.

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Citigroup CEO Scores $26.7 Million In Stock, 3 Million Options

Reuters Via USA Today | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Vikram Pandit, Citigroup, Sec, Business News

Citigroup (C) awarded Chief Executive Vikram Pandit $26.7 million worth of shares and 3 million stock options six weeks after he took over the largest...

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Even CEOs Think CEOs Are Overpaid

Reuters | Posted 12.20.2007 | Business

Read More: CEO Bonuses, CEO Pay, CEOs Overpaid, CEO Compensation, Business News

With many U.S. chief executives taking home millions of dollars in pay, it is no shock that average workers regards them as overpaid. But that attitud...

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Embarrassed Morgan Stanley CEO Skips Bonus

AP | Stephen Bernard | Posted 12.19.2007 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, John Mack, Morgan Stanley, Year-End Bonuses, Holiday Bonuses, Business News

"Deeply disappointing" fourth-quarter writedowns have Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack bypassing his year-end bonus -- and he is unlikely to b...

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Former UnitedHealth CEO To Forfeit $418 Million

New York Times | Eric Dash | Posted 12.07.2007 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Sec, UnitedHealth, CEO Compensation, William McGuire, Business News

In one of the largest corporate pay give-backs ever, William W. McGuire, the former chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, has agreed to forfeit at le...

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