Big Oil CEO Sees Major Pay Boost
DALLAS -- Exxon Mobil Corp.'s CEO had a good year in 2011 – he got compensation valued at $25.2 million. Shareholders had a good year too, so on...
DALLAS -- Exxon Mobil Corp.'s CEO had a good year in 2011 – he got compensation valued at $25.2 million. Shareholders had a good year too, so on...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.21.2012
In the wake of Wall Street recklessness that caused economic collapse, Congress gave shareholders and citizens Dodd-Frank to help them constrain self-dealing corporate executives. The 99% Coalition and shareholders are working with those tools even as Republicans vow to take them away.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.21.2012
It is a grotesque symbol of how the Wall Street banks control our government. Mr. Dimon, sir, out of respect to our waning confidence in government institutions, your resignation from the Fed Board is well past due.
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.18.2012
Every time a Honda Civic owner fills his tank, he hands $7.30 to Wall Street. A Ford Explorer driver is even more "generous" -- she provides them with a cool $10.41.
Anne Butterfield | Posted 05.13.2012
Fracking for natural gas is on Coloradans' minds. From landholders to policy makers, it's a pig pile of attention.
AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.08.2012
NEW YORK — Exxon said Thursday that it will spend about $150 billion over the next five years to find more oil and natural gas to satisfy the wo...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 01.03.2012
Ironically, Exxon's significant increase in profits of late comes after its Chairman and CEO virtually pleaded in May with the pooh-bahs of the Senate Finance Committee to rein in the excessive speculation, if not manipulation, of oil on the commodity exchanges.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.19.2011
The Cramer interview is breathtaking in exposing the administration's total lack of understanding of the distorted formation of the price of oil and gasoline in today's markets and seemingly impervious to its cost to the economy and its destructive impact on jobs.
Terry Tamminen | Posted 11.14.2011
As summer gives way to our back-to-work lives, busy execs will likely compare notes at Chamber of Commerce luncheons about the economy and job creation. We can all imagine those conversations, but here are a few you won't be likely to overhear.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.19.2011
Given the latest news that Chevron has been leveraging its insider status for huge profits, isn't it time our government began to rein in the massive oil market speculation? Or are the interests of the financial and oil industries just too well connected to permit change?
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 09.04.2011
Business must be slow and circulation down at Barron's. What better way to stimulate newsprint distribution than a blazoned scaremonger front page headline as in this past weekend's edition, "Get Ready For $150 Oil".
Mason Inman | Posted 07.19.2011
David Cameron, has repeatedly pledged to create the "greenest government ever," and now the country has adopted a new, ambitious goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, aiming by 2025 to slash them by half, compared with 1990.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.17.2011
Amidst the current kerfuffle of Republicans and Democrats blaming each other for ever higher gas prices, focusing on issues ranging from oil company tax breaks to impediments on new drilling, the most significant item of information extant is barely focused upon.
Dr. David Washington | Posted 05.25.2011
Today at the White House President Obama is launching Change the Equation (CTEq), a unique and promising partnership coalition of over 100 companies r...
Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011
As the deepwater oil spill arrives on the Gulf Coast, just some quotes to consider ... from John McCain to Barack Obama to George Will.
Posted 05.25.2011
Top kill, cut-and-cap, junk shot ... if you've come to the realization that the oil industry is helpless at stopping the raging Gulf oil spill, you're...
Posted 05.25.2011
After the success Senator Lisa Murkowski and lobbyist Jeff Holmstead had on Polluter Harmony, Greenpeace's fake matchmaking service is following up wi...
Kert Davies | Posted 05.25.2011
To make sure our Senators and Governors know what they can expect from a relationship with Big Oil, here's the latest Polluterharmony love story.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011
Far be it for the industry to play it straight, to simply state that price as currently constituted has nothing to do with market dynamics of supply and demand.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama pressured GM CEO, Rick Wagoner to step down; here are five other CEOs he should consider firing.
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said on Thursday it would be difficult to meet President-elect Barack Obama's goal to significantly boost U.S. alternati...
Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011
I never thought I'd say it, but I agree with Exxon on an environmental issue.
Portfolio | Liz Gunnison | Posted 05.25.2011
The bottom has dropped out of the banking business, brokerages are floundering, home foreclosures are soaring, and the threat of recession looms. What...
Fortune | Posted 05.25.2011
Some are empire builders. Others are hired guns. But if they truly have world-class oomph, they're on Fortune's subjective - yet really quite accurate...
AP | DAVID KOENIG | Posted 05.30.2012