Fannie, Freddie Pay: Execs' Multi-Million Dollar Salaries REVEALED
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators plan to disclose Thursday that the top executives of government-controlled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae...
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators plan to disclose Thursday that the top executives of government-controlled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae...
Simon Sinek | Posted 12.15.2009 | Business
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.
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...
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...
Les Leopold | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
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.
Les Leopold | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Les Leopold | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business
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.
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...
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
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.
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...
Richard Trumka | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
Les Leopold | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
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.
Les Leopold | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
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.
AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 12.24.2009 | Business