Corporate Bonuses

Corporate Executive Pay Still Doesn't Follow Feinberg's Push To Limit Huge Cash Payouts

washingtonpost.com | Tomoeh Murakami Tse | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Executive Pay, Bailout, Bank Reform, Kenneth Feinberg, Executive Compensation, Wall Street Bonuses, Corporate Bonuses, Business News

The Treasury Department said it is not looking to limit the total pay executives receive. Kenneth R. Feinberg, President Obama's special master for co...

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The Irrational Side of Corporate Bonuses

Dan Ariely | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Ariely

In light of the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent outrage over the continuing bonuses paid to many of those deemed responsible for it, many people wonder how incentives really affect CEOs and Wall Street executives.

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Xcel Energy Lavishing Execs As It Hikes Rates In Colorado

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Xcel Energy on pace to disconnect power to some 70,000 Coloradans this year for nonpayment, energy activists are openly questioning why ratepayer...

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Ain't I Greedy!

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Aig, Bailout, Corporate Bonuses, Financial Crisis, Federal Bailouts, Bailout Bandits, Economy, Aig Bonuses, Aig Federal Bailouts, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, Bank Bonuses, Recession, AIG Scandal, Business News
Robert S. McElvaine

Ever since AIG entered the public consciousness in a very negative way last fall, people have been wondering what the initials stand for.

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You Morons, What Have You Done With Our Money?

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Paulson, Elizabeth Warren, Government Bailout, Bailout, Barney Frank, Economic Crisis, Associated Press, Taxpayers Dollars, $700 Billion Bailout, Cpa, Henry Paulson Plan, Neel Kashkari, Bailout Money, Bank Bailouts, Rita Beamish, Congressional Bailout, Frank Bass, Brad Sherman, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Corporate Bailout, Bailout Oversight Panel, Executive Bailout, Corporate Bonuses, Business News
Gail Vida Hamburg

Was it too much to ask Congress to examine this government intervention in the free market critically before authorizing the transfer of US taxpayer dollars to benefit the banking sector?

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Paulson Deal Cheats American Taxpayers

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, Wall Street, Wells Fargo, U.S. Treasury, Henry Paulson, $700 Billion Bailout, Warren Buffett, Congress, Alan Greenspan, American Dream, Richard Kovacevich, Wall Street Crash, Stockholder Bonuses, Congressional Bailout, Financial Crisis, Treasury Secretary, Corporate Bonuses, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

We need to bury the philosophy that worships only business, free markets, deregulation and free trade, and replace it with an economic program that rebuilds the middle class.

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