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Wall Street CEOS May Be Held Accountable If Their Bank Breaks Rule

Posted 12.08.2011

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WASHINGTON (Dave Clarke) - Regulators are considering holding Wall Street chief executives legally liable if they allow certain types of proprieta...

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Goldman's Dark Horse To Become CEO

Posted 08.27.2011

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NEW YORK (Lauren Tara LaCapra) - David Solomon isn't your typical master of the universe, but he might have what it takes to lead Wall Street's mo...

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Bank Dividend Increases Would Give Wall Street Chiefs Millions

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Wall Street pay practice that has been described as a way to make banks safer is now set to enrich top executives. When banks are allowed to incre...

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Losing the Narrative on Public Employee Unions

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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The attack on public employee unions has just begun and won't go away. With the disempowerment of labor in our society, any sociologist will tell you, the living standards of all working people will be lowered.

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Mediocre CEOs: 9 Execs Screwed Up And Still Made Big Bucks

The Big Money | Heidi N. Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why aim for greatness when mediocrity pays just as well? The financial crisis has changed a lot about our economy, but one thing remains a constant: P...

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Wall Street CEOs Are Nuts

James Kwak | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama and Geithner should know better than to expect gratitude from a bunch of narcissistic, delusional crybabies. Both parties to this toxic relationship -- the Wall Street bankers and administration officials -- deserve each other.

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Wall Street CEOs Getting Increased Perks, Benefits Despite Public Outrage

Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some of the nation's biggest financial firms have increased the perks and benefits they pay their chief executives, despite the glaring spotlight from...

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Batten Down the Hatches: Supreme Court Opens Floodgates For Corporate Spending in Elections

Anna Burger | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Supreme Court has cast a mortal blow to accountability, transparency and ethical standards for corporate electoral activity by dismantling century-old restrictions.

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Fair

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 11.17.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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 05.25.2011

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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