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Texas Instruments CEO Pay $9.6 Million, A 6.6% Drop

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

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The chief executive of semiconductor maker Texas Instruments Inc. received compensation valued at $9.6 million in 2008, down 6.6 percent from the prev...

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Dear President Obama: Please Fix the Bank Bailout

Tram Nguyen | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Banks, Obama, Bailout, Geithner, CEO Pay, Obama Bailout, President Obama, Corporate Greed, Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Treasury Secretary, Politics News
Tram Nguyen

An immediate moratorium on foreclosures is necessary to keep families in their homes while a systemic solution is developed. Taxpayer money must go toward helping communities.

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Congress Sets New Limits On Wall Street Bonuses

Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 03.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Executive Pay, CEO Pay, Stimulus Plan, Ceo, Business News

While the stimulus bill passed by Congress Friday didn't end up containing any caps on CEO salaries, a provision, written by Senator Chris Dodd, did m...

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Stimulus Package Contains Strict New Restrictions On Executive Pay

Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bonus Caps, Pay Caps, CEO Pay, Economic Stimulus Package, Executive Pay Caps, Stimulus, Stimulus Package, Executive Pay, Politics News

The stimulus package Congress was poised to pass tonight imposes new restrictions on executive compensation that could erase multimillion dollar pay p...

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Human Capital -- an Asset, Not Just an Expense

Doug Struck | Posted 03.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Newspapers, CEO Pay, Unemployment, Finance, Ceos, Economic Crisis, Corporate Greed, Newspaper Industry, Death of Newspapers, Harvard University, Accounting, Stimulus Package, Journalism, Recession, Business News
Doug Struck

Economists use the term "human capital," but nowhere in accounting principles are people counted as an asset -- only as an expense.

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Pay Caps Relevant Beyond Wall Street

Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Wall Street Bailout, Executive Pay, Government Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, College, Hospitals, Obama, College Tuition, Health Insurance, Business News
Jim Jaffe

A political question of the moment is whether taxpayers concerned about subsidizing bloated salaries on Wall Street will feel an equal discomfort about playing a similar role in medicine and higher education.

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Steve Forbes: There Should Be Outrage At CEO Pay (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Salary Cap, Forbes, Steve Forbes, Video, Steve Forbes Early Show, The Early Show, Business News

On CBS Thursday morning, Steve Forbes commented on whether there is something wrong when, in 2006, for example, the average CEO made as much in a sing...

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The CEO Pay Caps Are A Mirage

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Pensions, Financial Crisis, Treasury Department, CEO Pay, Unions, Working Life, Barack Obama, Business News
Jonathan Tasini

If the point is to stop the legal looting of corporate treasuries and leave some money in the till for regular workers, when you get right down to it, the CEO pay caps aren't meaningful.

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Donald Trump: Obama "Absolutely Right" To Cap Executive Pay Tied To Bailout Money (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Executive Pay, CEO Pay, Video, Larry King, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Business News

Speaking with Larry King Wednesday night, Donald Trump defended President Obama's move to limit pay for executives receiving bailout money, calling t...

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Obama Caps Executive Pay Tied To Bailout Money (SPEECH TRANSCRIPT)

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama imposed a $500,000 pay cap on some senior executives whose firms receive government financial rescue money, ...

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Obama: CEOs Must Stop "Draining" Bailout Funds (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Bailout, CEO Pay, Wall Street Bonuses, Bailout Plan, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama continued his criticisms of Wall Street bonuses in his weekly address Saturday following his strong comments this week about the amount of money...

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Arianna Discusses CEO Ethics at "Davos Debates"

Huff TV | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, CEO Pay, Davos, Ceos, Ethics, Pablo Camacho, CEO Compensation, Davos 2009, Wall Street Bonuses, Arianna Huffington, Business Ethics, Business News
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2009-01-30-ahhufftvpull.jpg Arianna and Pablo Camacho respond to this year's "Davos Debates" question: should company executives have a code of ethics similar to doctors and lawyers?

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Dear Too Big To Fail

Robyn Blumner | Posted 01.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Ecomomic Meltdown, Recession, Credit Rating Agencies, Citigroup, Too Big to Fail, Job Losses, CEO Pay, Bankruptcy, Economy, Middle Class, Economic Crisis, Fraud, Layoffs, Ceos, CEO Bonuses, Financial Crisis, Personal Debt, Business News
Robyn Blumner

If I had turned an ungodly profit by putting my seal of approval on investments that turned out to be garbage, I'd be deeply worried about personal liability and jail.

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Is Corporate America Addicted to Layoffs?

Eve Tahmincioglu | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, CEO Pay, Benefits, Unemployment, Economy, Employment, Dow Chemicals Layoffs, Jobs, 3M Layoffs, Business News
Eve Tahmincioglu

Are these corporate managers making the right moves during tough economic times, or are they shortsighted and dumb?

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Penalize Bank Oligarchs to Help Cover the $3 Trillion or More Obama Will Be Spending On His EconWar

Rob Kall | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Nationalizing Banks, CEO Pay, Terrorism, Economic Crisis, Banks, Financial Crisis, Pirates, Corporatism, Business News
Rob Kall

It is time to define who the enemies in this "war," who the agents of economic terrorism actually are.

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CEOs Need to Run for Sheriff Just Once

Don McNay | Posted 12.20.2008 | 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 12.18.2008 | 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 12.16.2008 | Business

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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 12.14.2008 | 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 11.04.2008 | 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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Getting Wall Street Pay Reform Right

Robert Weissman | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Bailout, Income Inequality, Economy, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Executive Compensation, Wall Street Bonuses, 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 10.26.2008 | 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 10.23.2008 | 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 10.12.2008 | 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 10.06.2008 | 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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