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    Wall Street’s top executives still kept their pay. "With executive compensation you get what you pay for and you pay for what you get" said Nell Minow, editor of the Corporate Library, an independent research firm specializing in corporate governance, said in testimony prepared for the hearings. Full Article at The New York Times
    With executive compensation you get what you pay for and you pay for what you get
    SOURCE: The New York Times 20 months ago
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3 Executives Face Questions in Congress on Pay
  1. If you make compensation all upside and no downside that will affect the executives assessment of risk. It will make it clear to him that he can easily offload the risk onto shareholders. It’s heads they win, tails we lose.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 20 months ago
  2. When companies fail to perform, should they give millions of dollars to their senior executives?
    SOURCE: The New York Times 20 months ago
  3. There seem to be two economic realities operating in our country today
    Henry A. Waxman – Henry A. Waxman SOURCE: The New York Times 20 months ago
  4. Most Americans live in a world where economic security is precarious and there are real economic consequences for failure. But our nation’s top executives seem to live by a different set of rules.
    SOURCE: The New York Times 20 months ago

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