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washingtonpost.com - 2/8/2009
You Can Cap The Pay, But The Greed Will Go On
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washingtonpost.com - 2/12/2009
Lawmakers' Goal to Cap Executive Pay Meets Resistance
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Lawmakers' Goal to Cap Executive Pay Meets Resistance
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Goal of Obama's CEO pay cap: Make Wall St. accountable
seattletimes.nwsource.com - 2/5/2009
Goal of Obama's CEO pay cap: Make Wall St. accountable
— seattletimes.nwsource.com — President Barack Obama on Wednesday imposed $500,000 caps on senior executive pay for the most distressed financial... institutions receiving... (more) Goal of Obama's CEO pay cap: Make Wall St. accountable

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thomas.loc.gov - 2/4/2009
The Library of Congress: Cap Executive Officer Pay Act of 2009 - THOMAS
— thomas.loc.gov — To limit compensation to officers and directors of entities receiving emergency economic assistance from the Government.... (more) The Library of Congress: Cap Executive Officer Pay Act ...
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Your Librul Media: If You Read the WaPo, You'd Never Know The Democrats Won The Election
Crooks and Liars — ... Tom Donnelly is a resident fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Gary Schmitt is director of strategic studies there. How can this be? Surely there's a Democratic liberal in here somewhere...oh wait, here's a pitch for more cancer funding from pancreatic cancer victim Patrick Swayze. Well, he is a Hollywood actor, he probably is a Democrat... Oh wait, something approaching a liberal position: "You Can Cap The Pay, But the Greed Will Go On." Author note: Rakesh Khurana is a ...

John Cavanagh: A Bold Proposal for a New Economy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Obama has embraced bold rhetoric, lambasting executives for their "culture of narrow self-interest and short-term gain at the expense of everything else." Even business professors, such as Harvard's Rakesh Khurana and Andy Zelleke, are trashing the prevailing corporate milieu wherein "little has been meaningfully valued by either executives or shareholders beyond the short-term accumulation of wealth." ...

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