Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
Associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and editor of the online newsletter Too Much
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Profits of Doom: Breaking Wall Street's Addiction to Greed President Obama says free enterprise should reward hard work, but that "it does offend our values" when executives get huge bonuses, at the same time their companies are getting taxpayer bailouts to stay alive. So his so-called "pay czar" has cracked down on executive compensation at AIG, General Motors and five other companies.
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Profits of Doom: Breaking Wall Street's Addiction to Greed President Obama says free enterprise should reward hard work, but that "it does offend our values" when executives get huge bonuses at the same time their companies are getting taxpayer bailouts to stay alive. So his so-called "pay czar" has cracked down on executive compensation at AIG, General Motors and five other companies.
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