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Obama Caps Exec Pay in Bailout Plan: Will It Make a Difference?

5 February 2009

Taxpayers have been crying foul for weeks now after it was revealed that executives of failing financial institutions were still being rewarded with extraordinary pay outs. How big were the pay outs? If you include stock options, bonuses and perks, the chief executives of 10 banks which received $161 billion in federal bailout [...]

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Coming in for a Landing: What the Heck is a Golden Parachute?

6 October 2008

In the midst of all of the chatter about the economic fiasco bailout package, the term “golden parachute” has been bandied about quite a bit. Most folks know it has something to do with executive compensation – but what the heck is it?
A golden parachute is an agreement between a company and an employee [...]

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