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The pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, is tough man. He has forced firms that have taken TARP money to sharply drop the base salaries of their senior managers. Executives will have to take more of their...
Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world and the founder of one of the most successful companies ever created. That means that the media hangs on every word he utters whether he has any...
Robert Benmosche, the CEO of AIG (NYSE:AIG) is known for being hot-headed, mercurial, self-centered, brilliant, ill-tempered, and gifted. He is just the sort of executive who threatens to quit his...
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is under pressure today after its new CEO Robert Benmosche, who has not even had a full three months yet on the job, has effectively threatened to walk...
By Douglas A. McIntyre Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs (GS) has put an unusual spin on the bank’s activities. He says his firm is doing “God’s work.” This may seem like an audacious...
There has been plenty of evidence that firms like Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) have had such huge profits that their bonus payouts may be at all-time highs. The federal government has systematically begun...
Wall St. executives are apparently in for their best pay day in history, despite the fact that the collapse of the credit markets and the beginning of one of the worst recessions in US history are...
A new analysis from The Wall Street Journal shows that pay czar Kenneth Feinberg raised the salaries of most of the executives over which he has jurisdiction. The paper reports that base salaries...
Bankers have become more and more adroit at shooting themselves in the foot this year. Congress, the Administration and the public are already upset by actions that they believe caused the credit...
It is no secret that things could be much better at Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE).  But the last week or so has re-highlighted just how dire the situation is for these...
The Corporate Library’s latest annual review of corporate governance  at TSX 60 companies in Canada turned up eleven which present high or very high concerns with regard to CEO compensation:...
Pay czar Kenneth Feinberg has already effectively clipped the compensation wings of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) CEO Ken Lewis by taking away all of his 2009 compensation. Feinberg now plans to cut...
Wall St. will not be the only place where key workers will get multi-million dollar bonuses this year. RBS (NYSE:RBC), a UK financial firm which came within days of failing and received massive...
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) CEO Ken Lewis is still the firm’s CEO. He was going to leave at the end of the year. The board of the bank would like to find a replacement sooner, but they are either...
AIG (NYSE:AIG) is a meritocracy. One of the firm’s best kitchen workers got a $7,70o retention bonus as part of the firm’s plan to keep key employees. According to the FT, the payment was made...