Executive Compensation

Wall Street Makes Merry With Other People's Money

Dan Collins | Posted 12.16.2009 | New York

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Tarp, Executive Pay, Wells Fargo, Afl-Cio, Aig, Pay Czar, Pay Czar Ken Feinberg, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Commercial Banks, Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein, Ken Feinberg, Wall Street Bonuses, Executive Compensation, Citigroup, New York News

There's a good deal of jolliness on Wall Street this holiday season, thanks to the billions of dollars in bonuses that will be stuffed into the stockings of your favorite bankers. It's safe to assume the final tally will be very big.

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Executive Pay: SEC To Crack Down On How Companies Hide Compensation

Posted 12.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, Executive Pay, Securities and Exchange Commission, Executive Compensation, Wall Street Compensation, Business News

WASHINGTON (MARCY GORDON -- AP) -- Companies will have to reveal more information about how much they pay their top executives, under expanded require...

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Empower Stockholders To Dictate Executive Salaries

Jerry Chautin | Posted 12.18.2009 | Business

Headlines shout about overly generous executive compensation packages. Some say it is disgusting, obnoxious and egregious.

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AIG and the Season of Greed

Eric C. Anderson | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Greed, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Executive Compensation, Citigroup Bailout, Aig Bonuses, Business News

I'm expressing my shareholder outrage at the behavior of AIG's top executives, who now want raises. President Obama's compensation czar needs to take a ruler to these executives' knuckles.

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Wanted: AIG Management (Must Work for Cheap)

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business

Read More: AIG Bailout, Excessive Exit Packages, Aig, Executive Compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, Business News

WANTED: Bright, dedicated corporate professionals for key posts at massive insurance entity now essentially owned by the Federal government. Job would start immediately, as employer is sick of current crop of whiny, entitled executives.

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WSJ: AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Ready To Quit Over Pay Constraints

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Geithner, Regulation, Credit Default Swaps, Obama, White House, Bailout, Insurance, Treasury, Benmosche, Wall Street, Robert Benmosche, New York, AIG Bailout, House, Kenneth Feinberg, Financial Reform, Aig, Metlife, Capitalism, Tim Geithner, Financial Regulation, Executive Compensation, Liddy, Barack Obama, Banks, Socialism, Bonuses, Ken Feinberg, Executive Pay, Edward Liddy, Senate, Business News

NEW YORK — After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post a...

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One Year Later: The Post-TARP Questions We Should Be Asking

Dear John Thain | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Wall Street, Bailout, TARP Money, Too Big to Fail, Economic Crisis, Banks, Obama TARP, Obama Bailout, Executive Compensation, Business News

While we can't decisively compare outcomes of choices that were made to alternative choices, we can ask why certain decisions haven't even been tackled.

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Executive's Pensions See Huge Growth

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

Read More: S, Pensions, Pension, CEO Pay, Executive Compensation, Business News

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 ...

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Wall Street: the Real Roadblock to Economic Recovery

Anna Burger | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Anna Burger, Wall Street, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Cfpa, Financial Reform, Banks, Executive Compensation, Seiu, Business News

When I think about what still needs to be done to build a true economic recovery, I think about workers such as Maria Guerra.

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Wall Street and Goldman Sachs Party On

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Kevin Phillips, Executive Compensation, Goldman Sachs, William Black, Wall Street, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Economic Crisis, Tim Geithner, Economy, Larry Summers, Time Magazine, Allan Sloan, Business News

A criminal gang of rich white guys in New York did some extremely reckless things with the nation's collective wealth, and the middle class got clobbered.

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Executive Compensation: The Best Halloween Costume

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: PBS Frontline, Regulatory Reform, Executive Compensation, Brooksley Born, Derivatives, Business News

Limiting executive compensation is a terrific way to appease the masses and make it look like you're doing something without having to embark on the hard work of true regulatory reform.

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Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

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The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.

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WSJ, CNBC Hysterically Misinform On Executive Compensation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Video, Cnbc, Wall Street Reform, Wall Street Journal, Executive Compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, Charles Schumer, Business News

Kenneth Feinberg is the White House Special Master for Executive Compensation, and he is tasked with placing restrictions on the pay showered upon the...

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Arianna Discusses Executive Compensation, Dick Cheney On Morning Joe

Huff TV | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Too Big to Fail, Morning Joe, Economic Crisis, Aig, Arianna Huffington, Dick Cheney, Arianna Huffington on Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, Bailout, Gayle King, Financial Crisis, Banks, Executive Compensation, Business News

Arianna Huffington and Gayle King of "O" magazine joined the Morning Joe round table on Friday morning to discuss Dick Cheney's recent criticism of t...

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AIG Executives Kept Bonuses They Promised To Return, Feinberg Says

Bloomberg.com | Hugh Son | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: AIG Financial Products, Executive Pay, Bailoug, Aig Bonuses, Economic Crisis, AIG Bailout, Aig, Financial Crisis, AIG's Financial Products Unit, Pay Czar, Bonuses, Executive Compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, Business News

Four of five managers in AIG's Financial Products unit that are under the jurisdiction of pay master Kenneth Feinberg didn't make good on pledges to r...

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The $200,000 Insult: Come to Chicago

Dean Baker | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Bailout, Wall Street, Executive Pay, Showdown in Chicago, Financial Transactions Tax, Kenneth Feinberg, Executive Compensation, Obama Executive Pay, Business News

Wall Street badly needs fixing. Fortunately we have the tool to do the job. It's called a financial transactions tax (FTT) - a modest tax on trades of stock, futures, options and other financial instruments.

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Pay Restrictions May Not Fix Underlying Risk-Taking

Washington Post | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Pay, Executive Compensation, Banks, Wall Street, Bank Pay, Business News

With financial markets booming even as Main Street is still largely mired in recession, policymakers in Washington on Thursday were scrambling to cont...

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Excessive Compensation: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Executive Pay, Irs, Internal Revenue Code, Excess CEO Compensation, Excess-Ceo-Compensation, Internal Revenue Service, CEO Compensation, Obama Executive Pay Cap, Executive Compensation, Obama Executive Pay, Obama-Executive-Pay-Cap, Business News

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.

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

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Executive Compensation, CEO Pay, Wall Street Pay, Federal Reserve, Banks, Ben Bernanke, Bank Pay, Business News

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

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Plea$e, Mr. Feinberg! $ay it Ain't $o!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Executive Compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, TARP Payments, Bailouts, Business News

Thousands were involved, of course, but these 175 must stand in the forefront of their cadre, trembling, as their golden parachutes are folded up, their ceremonial swords broken over the knee of the government.

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Pay Czar Feinberg Speaks and Wall Street Cringes

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Aig, Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, Executive Compensation, Citigroup, Business News

Feinberg is not cutting total compensation, he's changing the composition of pay packages -- less cash, more stock with longer vesting periods. In other words, the top guys will have more skin in the game.

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Taming Corporate Pay, Finally

Mark Green | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Executive Pay, Pay Czar, Executive Compensation, Ken Feinberg, Politics News

Is the reported, imminent slapdown by "pay czar' Ken Feinberg of the pay packages at seven bailed out firms the breakthrough critics have been waiting for?

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Goldman Sachs Skirts Slashes in Compensation

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Aig Bonuses, Goldman Sachs Bailout, Aig, Henry Paulson, Kenneth Lewis, Goldman Sachs TARP, Goldman Sachs Profits, Executive Compensation, Kenneth Feinberg, Barack Obama, Politics News

The Times shows its agenda when it refers to the not-yet-existing AIG bonuses slashes as "the humbling downfall of the once-proud giants" while all those pesky citizens won't stop with the "populist animosity."

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Administration Plans Big Pay Cuts At Bailout Firms

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Executive Compensation, Bailouts, Wall Street, Executive Pay, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will order companies that received huge government bailouts last year to slash the base salaries of their ...

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Oh Goldman: A Song for Your Bonus Babies

Danny Schechter | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Financial Scandal, Wall Street Bonuses, Executive Compensation, Business News

In the middle of the bath / In the middle of the bath I call your name / Oh Goldman, oh Goldmamn, my love will turn on you / My love will turn on you

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