Corporate Greed

Chemical Insecurity

Philip Radford | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Joe Biden Vp, Corporate Greed, Chemicals, National Security, Janet Napolitano, President Obama, Chemical-Plants, Chemical-Products, Greenpeace, Dupont, Green News
Philip Radford

Simple, inexpensive, and common sense changes, like substituting or reducing the amount of lethal gases stored on-site, would protect millions of people from harm.

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The Bonus Debate Around the World

Georges Ugeux | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Economic Crisis, Corporate Greed, Recession, Business News
Georges Ugeux

Why should the world pay to maintain a compensation system that is perceived to be outrageous and dangerous for the systemic stability of capital markets?

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Obama Versus JFK on Corporate Greed: A Telling Comparison

Sheldon Filger | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Jfk Obama, Corporate Power, Corporate Greed, Barack Obama, President Obama, Business News
Sheldon Filger

In the past six months, President Obama has revealed his towering intellect, basic decency and sophisticated world view. However, we have yet to observe the toughness and passion required to take on the forces that drove the U.S. and global economy into a ditch.

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Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks

Thom Hartmann | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Thom Hartmann, CEO Pay, CEO Compensation, Corporate Greed, Business News
Thom Hartmann

What part of being a CEO could be so difficult -- so impossible for mere mortals -- that it would mean that there are only a few hundred individuals in the United States capable of performing it?

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The Yes Men Fix The World One Prank at a Time

Liza Weisberg | Posted 08.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Bhopal, Andy Bichlbaum, Biofuels, Halliburton, Dow Chemical, Hbo, Mike Bonanno, Exxon Mobil, HBO Documentaries, Free Market, Corporate Greed, The Yes Men, The Yes Men Fix the World, Pranks, Entertainment News
Liza Weisberg

In their new HBO documentary The Yes Men Fix the World, the eponymous pranksters take aim at unapologetic free market profiteers.

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The Health Care Crisis: Letters from Vermont and America

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bernie Sanders, Health Insurance, Corporate Greed, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Single Payer, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

The fight for universal and comprehensive health care is the civil rights battle of our time. Victory will require a strong grassroots movement that is prepared to take on the special interests.

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President Obama, my Response to Your Fourth of July Letter

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Challenge, Thomas Jefferson, Single Payer Healthcare, Fourth of July, Government, Participatory Democracy, Military, President Barack Obama, Corporate Greed, Democracy, Healthcare, Citizens, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

I request that the President provide those who participate in our democracy every protection granted by our Constitution to challenge those policies with which we disagree.

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Gross, Bond King: Greed Will Soon Return To Wall St.

Reuters | Jennifer Ablan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Finanical-Crisis, Greed, Pimco, Corporate Greed, Bill Gross, Consumers, Wall Street, New York-New York, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gross, the influential investor who runs top bond fund Pimco, said on Wednesday that greed will eventually become the norm a...

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Rethinking Wall Street: Why Bernie Madoff Makes Gordon Gekko Look Like Zac Efron

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Oliver Stone, Gordon Gekko, Michael Douglas, Economy, Jonathan Kim, Wall Street, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Meltdown, Martha Stewart, Economic Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Corporate Greed, Economic Meltdown, Zac Efron, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

But as the sordid details of the economic meltdown are revealed, it's clear that Gordon Gekko has nothing on the real corporate supervillains walking freely among us today.

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Get Rich and Destroy Lives -- The Bernie Madoff Way!

David Misch | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Greed, Madoff Victims, Bernard Madoff, Corporate Greed, Bernie Madoff, Comedy News
David Misch

Life isn't about the day you die; it's about making money every second till you're arrested. Now, in just 6 easy steps, you can live just such an enchanted life: the Bernie Madoff Way!

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Fear and Looting in America: How Wealth Begets Wealth on the Hill

Les Leopold | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Tax Cuts, Banks, Financial Crisis, Congress, Corporate America, Lobbyists, Economy, Wealth, Lobbying, New York Times, Corporate Greed, Business News
Les Leopold

This shift in wealth in America since the 1970s created an unholy cycle of more lobbying for more benefits for the super-rich and large corporations, who in turn paid for even more lobbying -- a cycle that still is in full motion.

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Not Stimulated! (Part 1)

Gihan Perera | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Obama, Corporate Greed, Stimulus, Economic Recovery, Recession, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Gihan Perera

The same cast of characters that got us into the economic mess -- the same ones that benefited from opportunities presented by out-of-control housing markets -- will benefit from the stimulus.

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A New Style of Investing for a New Day

Kevin Jones | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Greed, Investing, Corporate Greed, American Greed, Business News
Kevin Jones

Hollywood may be remaking Wall Street, but the days of Gordon Gekko and the "greed is good" mantra are behind us. Now it's becoming a reality in the investment community.

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Executive Pay and What to Do About It

Burton L. Wise | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Power, Executive Pay, Corporate Greed, Corporate America, Corporations, Executive Compensation, Business News
Burton L. Wise

Small shareholders in large corporations must form organizations to unify and organize their votes advance their interests and attempt to limit the out-of control remuneration of these executives,

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Avoiding the Wrong Goals

Tom Morris | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Leadership, Strategy, Corporate Responsibility, Goals, Recession, Economic Plans, Decisions, Targets, Management Decisions, Bush Administration, Values, Personal Growth, Mea Culpa, Self-Deception, Corporate Greed, Sin, Banks, Scandals, Living News
Tom Morris

Self-deception is such a powerful force in our lives that we cannot guarantee, even if we do spot it in action, that we'll be able to resist its subtle lure.

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Capitalism - the Gift That Keeps on Taking: Part II

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Bailout, Crime, Corporations, Corporate America, Economy, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Socialism, Corporate Power, Business, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Michael Gene Sullivan

History shows that capitalists, like wars, earthquakes, and floods, will always wreck our country -- the only difference being natural disasters don't also rob us in the process.

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Capitalism - The Gift That Keeps On Taking - Part III

Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Bailout, Crime, Corporations, Corporate America, Economy, George W. Bush, Obama Administration, Socialism, Corporate Power, Business, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Michael Gene Sullivan

Capitalism is self-sustaining like a cancer - it sustains itself as it kills it's host.

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Obama and the Age of Empathy

Dev Patnaik and Peter Mortensen | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Empathy, Corporate America, Ceos, Corporate Greed, Wired to Care, Business News
Dev Patnaik and Peter Mortensen

Rather than look inward for additional cost cuts they can develop, it's high time that executives inside companies get outside of their bubbles and discover what the rest of the world needs from them.

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Goodbye/Hello 1 "AIG And Corporate Shenanigans"

Patt Cottingham | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Aig, Ceos, Corporate Greed, CEO Pay, Financial Crisis, Business News
Patt Cottingham

Goodbye to CEOs whose only end game was manufacturing money. Hello to CEOs whose opening game starts with being influential, inspired leaders.

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Bringing Democracy to Corporate America

Richard Arthur | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Citi, Aig, Economic Stimulus Package, Corporate Responsibility, Bailout, Icahn, Corporate America, Democracy, Obama, Corporate Power, Corporate Greed, Wall Street Bonuses, Economy, Business News
Richard Arthur

It will not be painless but it is difficult to imagine it not happening -- the tools exist, corporations have proven that they need oversight and we need to protect our investments.

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NEEDED: BLUE RIBBON FINANCIAL CRIMES PROBE

Danny Schechter | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Crime, Bernie Sanders, Cuomo, Wall Street Investigation, Corporate Greed, Spitzer, Bernard Madoff, Politics News
Danny Schechter

The role of shady, largely unreported, "off shore" institutions is slowly emerging as a component of a larger criminal schemes.

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The Most Evil Corporations, Industries and Orgs

Rob Kall | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Crime, Nationalization, Newscorp, Exxon Mobil, Fox News, Imf, Evil, Corporate Greed, Government Ownership, Monsanto, Business News
Rob Kall

In these trying economic times, when new ideas and approaches must be developed, maybe it is time we identify and deal with the real enemies of the good, of humanity and the earth.

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AIG's Six Year Saga Of Alleged Fraud

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, AIG Bonus, Corporate America, Corporate-Fraud, Aig Bonuses, Aig, Aig Fraud, Fraud Aig, Corporate Greed, Credit Default Swaps, Aig Bailout New Information, Bonus Outrage, Business News

The recent outcry over $165 million in post-bailout bonus payments has put AIG on the hot seat. But, in fact, the bonus disbursement is perhaps the l...

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Madoff, AIG and the American "Gospel of Success"

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Treasury Department, Aig Bonuses, President Obama, Obama, Madoff Scandal, Bank Bonuses, Bernie Madoff, Barack Obama, Aig, David Brooks, New York Times, Bernard Madoff, Timothy Geithner, Bank Bailout, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Hoyt Hilsman

On an increasingly crowded, polluted and interdependent planet, the human race may not be able to indulge the "cultural DNA" of a society that has Darwinian opportunism as a credo.

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Money Doesn't Attract 'Talent': It Merely Attracts Greed

Philip Slater | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Greed, Executive Salaries, Talent, Business News
Philip Slater

If American executives were willing for a century or more to work for reasonable salaries, what other than an obsessive greed makes it necessary to overpay them today?

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