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Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Bernard Madoff, Deregulatory Tsunami, Wall Street CEOs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Economic Recession, Deregulation Banking, Deregulation, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Business News
Norman Horowitz

We are all victims of a deregulatory Tsunami that has been in process in order to make the "big guys bigger."

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Progressive Victory: Bank of America's Ken Lewis Out as Chairman

ZP Heller | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street CEOs, Take Back the Economy, Bailout, Bank of America, Seiu, Ken Lewis, Business News
ZP Heller

This is a huge win for progressives, who have been up in arms for months over BofA's decision to continue its shamelessly greedy, predatory practices after receiving tens of billions in bailout funds.

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Dr. Frankenstein, CEO

Tom Morris | Posted 05.07.2009 | Home

Read More: Tarp, Great Books, Wall Street CEOs, AIG Executives, Humanities, Bailout, Ceos, Home News
Tom Morris

We're told from many quarters that the humanities are in serious trouble now because of our tough economic times. But it's precisely a lack of ground...

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Hard Line On Auto Aid Puts Bailed-Out Firms On Notice

Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street CEOs, Economy, Financial Crisis, Wagoner Resignation, Double Standard, Politics News

NEW YORK, March 30 -- After ousting General Motors' chief executive, President Obama warned Monday that bankruptcy may be unavoidable for two American...

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CEO Compensation Increases Despite Firms' Troubles

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Ceo Perks, Wall Street CEOs, Wall Street Bailout, CEO Pay, Wall Street, Golden Coffins, Slideshow, CEO Compensation, Executive Pay, Business News

Companies may be floundering, but some chief executives continue to see their pay checks grow. According to Crain's New York Business: Amid the...

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The Flaw in the System: The Bankers Don't Care About the Banks

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Merrill Lynch, Alan Greenspan, Bailout, Larry Summers, Ceos, Banks, Bankers, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bonuses, Tim Geithner, Wall Street, Wall Street CEOs, Financial Crisis, Business News
Cenk Uygur

If you were going to make ten million dollars in bonuses for taking high risks with other people's money, would you do it? The answer invariably is -- hell yes!

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Executive Pay Caps Cut Out Of Stimulus Compromise: WaPo

Washington Post | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street CEOs, Morgan Stanley, Executive Pay, TARP Money, Wells Fargo, Ceos, Bank of America, Obama Executive Pay, Executive Compensation, Politics News

Congressional efforts to impose stringent restrictions on executive compensation appeared to be evaporating yesterday as House and Senate negotiators ...

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Las Vegas Mayor: Obama Should Apologize To Us

AP | OSKAR GARCIA | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street CEOs, Oscar Goodman, TARP Money, Wells Fargo, Ceos, Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, Obama TARP, Las Vegas, Barack Obama, Politics News

LAS VEGAS — Sin City's mayor wants President Barack Obama to apologize for saying companies shouldn't visit Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime. O...

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Rewarding Failure

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street CEOs, John Thain, Wall Street Bailout, Wall Street, Ceos, Financial Crisis, Business News
Joe Peyronnin

Memo to Wall Street: the old way of doing business is over if a company is on life support and needs a huge transfusion of federal taxpayer money to bail it out.

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Rancid Materialism Is Corrupting Our Community

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 01.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Eiyan Harah, Jewish Familiy Values, Wall Street CEOs, Marc Dreier, Materialism, Family Values, Judaism, Tzedaka, Kabbalah Center, Financial Crisis, Jewish Values, Bernard Madoff, Kabbalah, Living News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

For years now I have been passionately arguing the need for the Jewish community to serve as a light unto the nations by promulgating our values to the non-Jewish world.

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Top Wall Street Executives Made More Than $3 Billion Before Financial Crisis

Bloomberg | Tom Randall and Jamie McGee | Posted 10.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Wall Street Executives, Bear Stearns, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Wall Street CEOs, Business News

Wall Street's five biggest firms paid more than $3 billion in the last five years to their top executives, while they presided over the packaging and ...

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What Your Wall Street CEO Is Really Worth

Wall Street Journal | Heidi Moore | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Richard Fuld, Lazard, Wall Street CEOs, Bruce Wasserstein, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Business News

Louis XIV famously said, "L'etat, c'est moi," letting everyone know his centrality in France. Bruce Wasserstein needs no such pithy quotes to broadcas...

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