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Fannie, Freddie Pay: Execs' Multi-Million Dollar Salaries REVEALED

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 12.24.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Federal regulators plan to disclose Thursday that the top executives of government-controlled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae...

Getting the Best Leaders Takes More Than Money

Simon Sinek | Posted 12.15.2009 | Business


Simon Sinek

Money should be the reward for building strong, long-term sustainable organizations and not given as the primary motivation for showing up or simply making the quarter or even the year.

BofA CEO Search To Be Aided By Lifting Of TARP Pay Restrictions

AP | SARA LEPRO | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. has been having a tough time finding a new CEO willing to accept the restrictions that came as a condition of b...

Tech CEOs See Flat Compensation For First Time In Decade

techcrunch.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Technology


In most years, come rain or shine, executive pay at technology startups always goes up because the competition for talent is always so intense. In 200...

Stop Socialism for the Rich: Nationalize Wall Street

Les Leopold | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business


Les Leopold

We should give strong consideration to nationalizing the largest banks in order to run them like public utilities. We also should consider placing banking employees into the civil service system to end the ridiculous wage distortions.

Please Welcome Peter W. Galbraith and Andrew J. Hall to the Billionaire Bailout Society

Les Leopold | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business


Les Leopold

Galbraith reportedly got himself a $100 million piece (or more) of a Kurdish oil field. Hall's oil trading scams are picking our pockets by driving up the price of oil just enough for him to make a killing.

Sam Stein

Pay 'Czar' Feinberg: I'm Not Eager To Use Imperial Edicts

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business


The man known as President Obama's "czar" of CEO pay, Kenneth Feinberg, said on Thursday that he finds the title "unfortunate" and believes that the c...

Vonage CEO, Mark Lefar, Gets Big Boost In Perks Even As Company Stock Tanks

footnoted.org | Michelle Leder | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business


What a year it has been [for Vonage] under Lefar. When he joined the company, Vonage stock was trading at around $1.50 and a little over a year later ...

Wall Street Bonuses At Big Three Banks May Be Up 60% From Last Year

bloomberg.com | Michael J. Moore and Ian Katz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business


Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis sin...

Executive's Pensions See Huge Growth

wsj.com | ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and TOM MCGINTY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business


Pensions for top executives rose an average of 19% in 2008, with more than 200 executives seeing pensions increase more than 50%, according to a Wall ...

Robert Shiller: Address Income Gap, Tie It To Tax Rate (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


The US might be in the midst of a second housing and financial bubble, according to economist and Yale Professor Robert Shiller. Shiller and Financial...

Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Jobless Recovery

Les Leopold | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business


Les Leopold

For the past 30 years we have minted billionaires, and we have created the most unequal distribution of wealth since 1928-29. This didn't happen by accident.

Despite Pay Czar's Cuts, Many Top Executives Have Already Left Bailed-Out Firms

washingtonpost.com | Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Brady Dennis | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business


The administration had tasked Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury Department's special master on compensation, to evaluate the pay packages of 25 of the mo...

Excessive Compensation: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business


Aaron Zelinsky

The Obama Administration recently announced pay limits for bailed-out CEOs. But unless the IRS changes its policies, taxpayers will continue to subsidize unreasonable compensation paid by publicly held corporations.

Bank Pay: Fed Proposes Guidelines On Compensation For The First Time

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve would police banks' pay policies to ensure they don't encourage employees to take reckless gambles like those t...

Showdown in Chicago

Richard Trumka | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business


Richard Trumka

We're gathering outside the American Bankers Association meeting to demand reform that will allow us to rebuild our communities, our lives and the real economy. We've got a lot to rebuild.

India Tries To Curb CEOs' "Vulgar" Pay Packages

GlobalPost | Posted 10.21.2009 | World


BANGALORE, India -- India's politicians are arrayed against the country's corporate class in a battle over excessive executive compensation, a subject...

Bailed-Out Banks Act Before Pay Czar Announcement

AP | DANIEL WAGNER and STEPHEN BERNARD | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Several firms that received large taxpayer bailouts have adjusted executive compensation to trim cash payouts before the Obama admi...

Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg Plans To Cut Salaries, Increase Stock Compensation

wsj.com | By DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's pay czar is planning to clamp down on compensation at firms receiving large sums of government aid by cutting...

5 Most Overpaid CEOs: The Corporate Library's List

cnn.com | Ben Rooney | Posted 11.29.2009 | Business


The Corporate Library, a corporate governance research firm, reviewed regulatory filings from 2,000 publicly traded companies and came up with a list ...

Annual Bank Bonuses To Be Banned In U.K.

BusinessWeek | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business


British Treasury chief Alistair Darling said Monday that annual bonuses for bank executives will be outlawed in an attempt to curb excessive risk-taki...

CEO Pay Fell Just 6.4 Percent From 2007 To 2008

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business


A new survey of CEO pay by research firm the Corporate Library finds that median take-home pay among more than 2,000 CEOs fell by 6.4 percent from 200...

Jiang Jianqing, CEO Of Top China Bank, Earned Just $234,000 Last Year

Reuters | Steve Eder | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (Reuters) - You wouldn't know it by his pay stubs, but Jiang Jianqing heads the world's largest bank....

Size Matters: Why the Obama Administration is Wrong About Wall Street Pay

Les Leopold | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business


Les Leopold

Just a year ago, it seemed plausible that our government would do the obvious: bring the hammer down on sky-high salaries and bonuses, which clearly had no economic justification.

Daddy: Did Wall Street Win the War?

Les Leopold | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business


Les Leopold

The ultimate Wall Street victory: bankers rob the Treasury, then the government gets blamed for the heist. You can hear the glasses clinking, come bonus time.