Golden Parachute

Former Gannett CEO Battling Ostentatious Display Of Wealth Next Door

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.24.2012

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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. ...

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Yes, America, Some CEOs Deserve a $50 Million Paycheck

Jeff Reeves | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Golden Parachute, CEO Pay, Apple, Ceos, Starbucks, Executive Compensation, Tim Cook, Buffett Rule, Howard Schultz, Starbucks Howard Schultz, Howard Schultz Compensation, Business News

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.

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Report: Wall Street CEO Pay Problems Worsened By New Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 11.30.2010

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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...

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EU CAPS Bank Bonuses: Company Performance To Dictate Bonus Pay

AP | AOIFE WHITE | Posted 05.25.2011

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BRUSSELS — European Union lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly to cap bankers' short-term cash bonuses from next year, a move that European leade...

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A Golden Parachute For Tony Hayward? Doubtful, Compensation Experts Say

CNN Money | Ben Rooney | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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AIG-Gate: The World's Greatest Insurance Heist

Ellen Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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AFSCME Urges Say-on-Pay for Shareholders

Gerald McEntee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Executives, Golden Parachute, Shareholders, Say on Pay, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Barney Frank, Say-on-Pay, Aig, Wall Street Bonuses, Politics News

A key step to fixing our economy is making sure that the interests of shareholders and stakeholders are considered in corporate board rooms.

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Bank Got Bailout, CEO Got Golden Parachute

ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Where Are the Wall Street Patriots?

Patt Morrison | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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Merrill Lynch Executive To Get $10 Million Buyout

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Paint McCain a Red-Baiter

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.

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The Six Wise Men of Washington

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Golden Parachute, John McCain, Wall Street, Bail-Out Bil, John Boehner, Barney Frank, Henry Paulson, Obama, Billionaires, Bailout, Business News

The second came to Capitol Hill And proclaimed it absolute: What happens now on Wall Street, America follows suit.

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Costco and the Great Federal Bailout

Howard Gewirtz | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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