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The Most Surprising Nay on Pay Yet
A perfectly respectable business panel is urging corporate boards to ditch the ridiculous rationalizations for CEO pay excess and narrow the gargantuan corporate pay gap. Step one: end CEO stock options.
Why Do We Have Corporations
This spring the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street movement arrived at corporate shareholder meetings, with the 99% Power coalition demanding decent corporate governance that serves the interests of We, the People rather than just a few people. There are results inside and outside of the big corporations.
Romney On China: Talks The Talk, Will He Walk The Walk?
The Mitt Romney campaign is airing an ad promising that on his first day in office Romney would "stand up to China" and demand "they play by the rules." Romney has the opportunity right now to demonstrate that he will live up to these words. He can ask Republicans in Congress to sign a discharge petition to bring up for a vote a currency manipulation bill that 61 of them co-sponsored.
Obama's Plan B For Saving The Climate Is In Effect
Yesterday the EPA released a new rule setting greenhouse gas emission limits on new power plants, which are strict enough to
In this week's round in the nation's presidential contest, education got tossed into the ring and slapped around by the opposing candidates and their spokespeople. Who won the round is anyone's guess, but poor education got mauled in the process and tossed into the spit bucket. The gauntlet has been thrown down in the tax fairness fight. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor earlier today announced that House Republicans will schedule a vote before the August recess on making the Bush tax cuts permanent for everyone, including the rich and super-rich. Earlier this week, I tried to explain what the Bain debate is really about. It's not about capitalism vs. "socialism." It's about choosing what kind of capitalism we want. It's about the future, and deciding what kind of economy we want. It's about deciding who and what our economy is for. It's about something most Americans can understand a lot more readily than the financial engineering that drives private equity. It's about something President Obama is already talking to Americans about. It's about choosing what's going to drive our economy: greed or fairness. More and more people are calling for Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, to resign from the Board of the New York Federal Reserve. Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security.
Romney Obama Vie For Who Can Hurt Education The Worst
Dont Give Up The High Ground In The Tax Fairness Fight
Greed vs Fairness: Bigger Than Bain
How to Fix the Fed Dismiss Dimon Boot the Bankers and Can the Corporations
Progressive Breakfast - 5/25/2012
MORNING MESSAGE: Romney’s Job-Killing Budget Can’t Make Unemployment 6%
Progressive Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE: Romney’s Job-Killing Budget Can’t Make Unemployment 6%
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