The (Bill) Clinton Team’s Secret Meeting on CEO Compensation
CEO compensation as social engineering and class warfare, as revealed by Robert Reich.
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And Then There Were 3? Three Trials Over Financial Firm Audits Loom for Big Four Firm PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers faces three potentially serious trials over allegedly negligent audits of failed financial firms. The most significant launched earlier this month in a Florida state court. Other big four firms successfully settled claims.
Read more...How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
How MBA programs reinforced the inequality-promoting neoliberal economic model.
Read more...Bill Black: When Is Crime Not a Crime? When It Is White-Collar Crime
Yet another demonstration of how the media airbrushes out the very concept of white-collar crime.
Read more...Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn Out Takers Not Makers.
How MBAs have become negative value added to everyone but themselves.
Read more...CalPERS Uses Unqualified “Expert” to Validate Its London-Whale-Style Deficient Risk Management
CalPERS tells its board that the very same lax risk management oversight structure that led to the London Whale fiasco is “best practice” when it clearly isn’t.
Read more...How the “Maximize Shareholder Value” Myth Weakens Companies and Economic Systems
A multi-level, biological perspective on business shows how simple-minded ideas like “maximize shareholder value” and tolerating predators aredestructive.
Read more...Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions Accelerating
New rules by the US Treasury to curb corporate inversions haven’t done enough to slow the rising tide.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Corporate Convention: “Comcast Presents … The Democratic Party. Welcome to Philadelphia.”
The Democratic party convention will put its big-money soul on tawdry display.
Read more...Weak Wall Street Pay Reform Proposals May Have Some Unintended Positive Effects
A long-overdue plan to reform Wall Street pay is seriously flawed but could have a positive effect in spite of itself.
Read more...The Ogre & the Cog: A Tale of Modern Misallocation
The tale of the ogre and the cog endeavors to explain why modern capitalist machinery isn’t working the way it is supposed to. The open question is whether this is inevitable.
Read more...Anyone Want to Buy Deutsche Bank?
Some more reasons why Deutsche Bank looks like one to avoid
Read more...US Oil Futures Plunge by Nearly 7%, to $26.55 a Barrel; Stocks Swoon
Oil has ratcheted down again and stocks are getting hammered.
Read more...Why Letting the Koch Brothers Create a “Center for Free Enterprise” at Public University WCU is a Bad Idea
The hidden strings in a Koch Brothers gift to Western Carolina University, and why its faculty is opposed.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Wall Street Reviews What Sanders Plans for Wall Street
An overview of the Sanders Big Finance reform proposal, and some of the ways it has been caricatured or flat-out misrepresented
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