How Power Suits Subvert the Law of the Land
Lawmakers make laws. They don’t enforce them. Corporate America understands that difference — and exploits it with a relentless regularity. The latest case in point: the battle over outrageous CEO pay. Read more . . .
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Notable
This American Library Association “outstanding title” of the year explores the price we pay for massive inequality. Now available for reading online.
Classic
Back in the 1930s, a University of Chicago project set out to list western civilization’s greatest books. Only one book by a living author, this one, made the cut.
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Quote of the Week
“Almost everything we sell in Beverly Hills is $10 million or more, and it’s all cash.”
Jeff Hyland, Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Inside the high-end housing market, BBC News, February 17, 2012
Stat of the Week
Making Wall Street look almost reasonable: Top execs at Facebook took home $83 million last year. Wall Street’s highest-paying bank, JPMorgan Chase, shelled out $79 million to its top execs. Facebook top execs, notes Fortune, managed 3,200 staffers. JPMorgan top execs managed 239,831.
Greed at a Glance
Malnutrition, commodity speculation, and the wealth of the wealthy . . . The Olympics of conspicuous consumption . . . Pricey sunglasses.
Executive Pay Scorecard
Top media outlets and business researchers annually release compensation surveys that detail executive pay levels over the preceding year. These surveys seldom sample the same corporations — or measure pay the exact same way — and, consequently, almost always generate somewhat different results. We sum up the latest top national and regional survey results here.
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