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Breaking: The President Doesn’t Begrudge People Success Or Wealth

How nice of him. But the fact that people think the President actually ought to get a vote on this issue is disturbing, as my colleague, Francis Cianfrocca points out.

The Executive Pay Crackdown and Too Big to Fail Policy Explained

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the White House’s latest actions capping executive pay on Wall Street and an interesting take one blogger has on those troublesome Too Big to Fail policies.

Insider Trading and More Bonus Blowback

Today’s Coffee and Markets podcast focuses on the arrests of Galleon hedge fund partner Raj Rajaratnam and the coming Federal crackdown on insider trading, as well as David Axelrod’s comments this weekend about the bonus culture of Wall Street.

Turnabout IS Fair Play . . .

So I assume that the politicians who are responsible for running up a budget deficit in the trillions–and many of them are in the Obama Administration and run Congress–will restrict their own pay and benefits, just as the House has voted to restrict the pay and benefits of private sector actors, including those who have not taken any money in government bailouts.

The Mother Of All Resignation Letters

Behold. Sometimes, it is easy to forget that there are human beings behind ginned-up scandal stories concerning the AIG bonuses.

The Real AIG Scandal

Anger over the AIG bonuses has opened the way for Congress and the Administration to take actions that will severely threaten the free exercise of contracts and agreements. Yet the actual impact of those bonuses in financial terms is almost insignificant. The real AIG scandal? The Obama Administration’s response.

- March 20, 2010 -

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