Executive Compensation

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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For Wall Street and Goldman Sachs the Party Continues

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.02.2009 | 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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Rewarding Failure: The Bail-Out Bonuses on Wall Street Continue

Robert Creamer | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Executive Compensation, Aig, Wall Street Bonuses, J.P. Morgan Chase, President Obama, Wall Street, Economic Recession, Financial Meltdown, Obama Regulatory Reform Package, Kenneth Feinberg, Politics News

If world-class, reckless risk-taking continues to receive massive economic rewards, then we are headed to another financial collapse in two years -- or five years; or fifteen years.

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Financial Crisis Worked Out Well for Goldman Sachs

Alan Schram | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, Business, Wall Street, Executive Compensation, Business News

Now that Goldman Sachs is a regular commercial bank, it actually trades more. This makes sense: if the US Treasury covered my losses, I would also be happy to take major risks.

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Who Really Will Pay for Goldman Sachs' $23 Billion in New Bonuses

Rob Shapiro | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

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

We didn't need this latest and most conspicuous instance of greed at Goldman to know that the compensation provided to the uppermost echelons of American business is out of control.

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Executive Compensation - "Keep the Bubble in the Middle"

David M. Roberts | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Executive Compensation, Say on Pay, Wall Street Crisis, Corporate Governance, Business News

A recent academic study by Fahlenbrach & Stulz actually shows that on average the CEO's in the financial crisis did not take big gains while shareholders suffered losses. The median loss for a CEO was $5.1million.

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A Happy Day in Businessland!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Executive Compensation, Recovery, Bankers, Wall Street, Jpmorgan, Recession, Business News

The Dow is about to go over 10,000 again. Won't that be nice? Yay for those cockeyed optimists! They make the world go 'round!

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Goldman Sachs Bonuses: Columnist Says Analysts Predict $23 Billion Bonus Pool, Firm May Make Huge Donation

New York Times | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

By most analyst estimates, the annual bonus pool will swell to more than $23 billion. In its second quarter, Goldman disclosed it had put aside $11.4 ...

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