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Limits on Executive Pay May Prove Toothless

 

Published 12/15/2008 by Amit R. Paley at Wash Post Obama Administration

Congress wanted to guarantee that the $700 billion financial bailout would limit the eye-popping pay of Wall Street executives, so lawmakers included a mechanism for reviewing executive compensation and penalizing firms that break the rules. (link)

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