Members of Congress currently receive 174,000 smackeroos per year in base salary. What we should do is cut that salary to $100,000 per year, but provide incentives if Congress is able to successfully lower the unemployment rate.
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission is pursuing fraud charges against three former executives of ATM maker Diebold Inc. after re...
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain said during the campaign that he would stop wasteful spending in government by naming names and making people famous. Well, that's a pretty good idea. Let's do it for the bankers to get out money back.
Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011
Cross-posted from Harvard Business Online Over the past few months there has been growing anger and frustration about outsized Wall Street bonuses aw...
AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — After years spent raking in millions as a top executive of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Lloyd Blankfein said Wednesday that outsized b...
David Donell | Posted 05.25.2011
With courts unwilling to interpret the law as affording some defense for charities, there have been efforts to persuade legislators to amend existing laws to provide such a defense. But little has come of these efforts.
Reuters | Martha Graybow | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's brokerage filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking the return of $150 million that the firm ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
This item from DCist merits some attention: A television crew will create a special effects explosion on the Potomac River, near the Key Bridge, on W...
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011
The much-reviled US tax code contains within it thousands of treatments and exclusions that enable subclasses of people to enjoy deductions, credits or even exclusions from paying taxes.
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011