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Executive Compensation Limits? Hardly

By | 06.12.09 | 12:04 pm

Just how tough are the Obama administration’s new executive compensation limits for bailed out firms? Well, as a hint, Wall Street sees them as no threat at all. Indeed, The Washington Post today gets a few telling quotes from bankers who are giddy that these are the only More…

GOP Attacks Labor in Alternative Auto Bailout Plan

By | 12.10.08 | 2:11 pm

Saying the Democrats’ Detroit bailout plan “guarantees failure at taxpayer expense,” House Republicans on Wednesday introduced an alternative blueprint asking union workers to take a pay cut and give up benefits.

The current powers that be — both in Washington and Detroit — can’t be trusted to fix a More…