NEWSLETTER: Have you seen this ad?
"Dear Danilo,$427 million. That's what the oil and coal industries spent during the first half of 2008 on lobbying and advertising. They're protecting their interests -- and hurting ours. So we've got a new ad that... AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Gets $7 Million Salary
American International Group (AIG) will pay new CEO Robert Benmosche a salary of $7 million dollars per year. AIG received billions of dollars in bailout money from the government earlier this year. The salary has been approved in principly by Washington's new pay czar...
Government Capping Compensation?
As you shelter yourself in a cool closet from the hailstorm of healthcare promotion, Congress and the President are sliding into home plate with compensation controls in the senior offices of financial firms, … for starters. The new Corporate and Financial Institution...
The NEW GM !
Allll riiiigght! America's heavyweight automaker has reentered the fray, "leaner and meaner", we hope! At least, that's what's been reported by the Associated Press. So,...
Obama’s Private Economic Conundrum
Having effectively been elected by a population believing in his redistribution of wealth promises, Obama has leaped into the fray of a game in which he has no experience. He arrived with an ideology, and seems to have learned little about the recession facing the Nation....
Where's your crown King nothing?
Have become a nation of debtor kings sitting proudly upon our throne of affectations? I would be inclined to answer in the affirmative and the evidence tends to support the assertion. We have become little more than the sum total of our possessions; blithely mortgaging our... OBAMA IN ACTION-GM CHIEF ASKED TO STEP DOWN
According to a BBC report, Rick Wagoner was ordered by Obama to step down. This tough action is the result of the report by the auto task force setup by Obama which termed the revival plans submitted by the auto giant GM as non viable in the current form. Obama is proving to...
Obama’s Salary Cap Red Herring
In effort to appear attentive and accommodating to the crowd’s discontent, Obama has made a big deal of announcing an executive salary cap policy targeting any financial institutions that receive exceptional...
Lehman Exec Sells $13m Mansion to Wife for $100
Former Lehman Brothers chief executive officer Richard Fuld transfered the $13.75 million dollar home he shared with his wife into her name, and Florida real-estate records show that Kathleen Fuld 'bought' the...
Disrespecting Taxpayers & Shareholders
As CEOs beg for Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) handouts, the new corporate mantra is, “maintain shareholder trust,” … sorry, make that the new corporate mantra is not, but should be, …”maintain... Yahoo Inc names Carol Bartz as new CEO
Yahoo was finding very difficult to find a successor to Jerry Yang as chief executive. But they have managed to zeroed on Carol Bartz as the new boss. But critics says she isn't exactly inspiring. Ms. Bartz is a...
Top CEO firings of 2008...with a glimpse of 2009 possibilities
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Paul Weyrich, Founder of the Heritage Foundation, Dies :: MAXINE
." Founder Of The Heritage Foundation, Dies Image Credit: weyrichdinner.orgPaul Weyrich, Founder Of The Heritage Foundation, DiesSad that the Conservative movement has lost its rudder - REALLY – May God bless...
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