It's not news that CEOs get paid way more than you do, but recent reports reveal that some are getting paid even more not to come to work anymore. ...
BERLIN -- A top European Union official says he plans to propose that company shareholders across the continent be given the power to set managers' pa...
In the name of "fiscal responsibility," the self-interested CEOs animating Fix the Debt are pushing a deficit reduction plan that would lower taxes for corporations and the super-rich while slashing programs central to the middle class and those working their way into it.
But if you fail to do the one thing they hired you to do -- i.e., earn money for the company -- why would you expect to be rewarded for it?
Larry Ekstrom could have hosted a bake sale or something to raise money for charity. But the Madison, Mich., senior just isn't the type. Instead, E...
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The sudden decision to replace the chief executive tapped to run America's largest electric company has prompted North Carolina's att...
WASHINGTON -- The golden parachute CEO of a giant media company is battling the construction of a new mansion in his wealthy Washington, D.C. suburb. ...
Starbucks' growth doesn't come from "insanely great" gadgets with huge profit margins. The coffee chain shows how a good CEO can do right by his company, and how that can structure a CEO's pay to ensure he gets paid what he deserves.
In the years leading up to worst financial crisis since the Depression, as gambling fever seized Wall Street, one of the primary forces encouraging gr...
BRUSSELS — European Union lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to cap bankers' short-term cash bonuses from next year, a move that European leade...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If embattled BP chief executive Tony Hayward leaves the company, he is not likely to walk with a massive windfall, compensa...
Unlike the perpetrators of the Watergate scandal, who wound up facing jail time, Timothy Geithner evidently has a golden parachute waiting at Goldman Sachs, not coincidentally the largest recipient of the AIG bailout.
A key step to fixing our economy is making sure that the interests of shareholders and stakeholders are considered in corporate board rooms.
The South Financial Group announced this week that it had been approved to receive $347 million from the U.S. government. But the bank's founder and longtime CEO won't be sticking around.
The bailout moolah rules declare that the monster golden parachutes are now things of the past, but since it's our money, we can further dictate what happens to it -- and we definitely should.
A top executive at Merrill Lynch & Co Inc (MER.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), which last month accepted a takeover offer from Bank of Ameri...
The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.
The second came to Capitol Hill And proclaimed it absolute: What happens now on Wall Street, America follows suit.
If you've paid your taxes, you are now the proud owner of unregulated hedge funds, mortgaged-backed junk bonds, etc. In other words, crap.
