1.0 link 107347 <![CDATA[John McCain's New Populism?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-francis/john-mccains-new-populism_b_107347.html Obscene CEO payouts and stock options, golden parachutes and now golden coffins?

Golden coffins are "severance packages", which have been hidden from shareholders until new disclosure laws launched in 2007 finally kicked in.

Last week, the first ones surfaced and the Wall Street Journal published the worst examples: $298.1 million for Comcast CEO Brian Roberts; $288 million for Nabors CEO Eugene Isenberg; $115.6 million for Occidental CEO Ray Irani and a posthumous fee of $17 million for CEO J.M. Bernhard, of...

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