Executive Pay: Will inflated pay packages get slashed?

Angelo R. Mozilo, whose Countrywide Financial came to symbolize the failings of the mortgage industry, took home more than half a billion dollars from 1998 to 2007, including $121.7 million from cashing in options last year alone. Charles O. Prince, who led Citigroup to the brink of disaster, was awarded a retirement deal worth $28 million. Now, in a show of purported restraint, top Wall Street executives are going without bonuses. Full Story »

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Glenn LaBauve
3.7
by Glenn LaBauve - Dec. 22, 2008

Financial is by its nature complicated, a good attempt at digesting the current dissatisfation and how previous attempts have failed. This has been a constant problem for at least the last century when we began allowing corporations to be treated as people instead of associations. In order to be effective any new legislation will have to address compensation, structure, identity, nationality, stockholder and taxpayer rights and liability for ALL corporate actions.

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