How America Can Stop Violence Against Health Care Workers
Congess is rousing itself to make health care employers Do Something to protect staff from violence….but is the legislation adequate?
Read more...Category Archives: CEO compensation
An Unexpected But Welcome Call to Cap CEO Pay Comes From France
Neo-liberal Emmanuel Macron endorsed capping CEO pay as part of the recent French presidential campaign. Is the concept of a maximum wage an idea whose time has come?
Read more...CalPERS Consultant Global Governance Advisors Recommends Further Overpaying Grossly Underperforming CalPERS Staff
How a new consultant, Global Governance Advisors, is helping CalPERS executives and staff even better line their pockets.
Read more...‘The Real Looting in America Is the Walton Family’: GAO Report Details How Taxpayers Subsidize Cruel Low Wages of Corporate Giants
Taxpayer money subsidizes the looting of the Walton family. Why should one family reap billions while its workers can barely survive?
Read more...Another Compliance Failure: CalPERS Discussed Recusal of Ex-CIO Ben Meng but Failed To Enforce It; CEO Marcie Frost Says “Not My Job”
CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost told the press that she’s punting on her compliance duties.
Read more...Influential California State University Council Calls for CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost to Go on Administrative Leave During Investigation by Inspector General
A CSU group has asked Gavin Newsom to put CalPERS CEO Marcie Frost on administrative leave while an inspector general probes governane failings.
Read more...CEOs Bank Big Bonuses As Oil Companies Go Bankrupt
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Read more...How McKinsey Got Greedy
How McKinsey put money over its once vaunted firm values.
Read more...Marcie Frost Indictment: Overwhelming Majority of Investment Professionals Would Not Recommend Joining CalPERS
A survey of CalPERS’ investment professionals reveals that CalPERS is one big unhappy family. Not only that, it shows that they’ve become less happy in the last year, since Ben Meng became Chief Investment Officer. We’ve embedded the summary page of the survey, but this section shows that less than 1/4 of CalPERS’ investment professional […]
Read more...The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS
The myth of magical CEOs seems to break down in the public sector.
Read more...The Terribly Difficult Things Health Care CEOs Must Do to Make the Big Bucks: Back-to-Back Meetings, Complicated Schedules, Fatiguing Driving?!
Heatlh care CEOs are a prime example of executive feather-bedding.
Read more...Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
A takedown of the pharmaceutical industry’s assertion that it need to price gouge so it can invest in R&D. Profits go almost entirely to various forms of looting.
Read more...Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate
A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.
Read more...The Numbers Are In, and Trump’s Tax Cuts Are a Bust
Why Trump’s tax “reforms” didn’t deliver on growth, just on rentierism.
Read more...Is There a Global Future for Unions?
A personal retrospective on the forces driving the rise and decline (and hopeful revival) of unions.
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