AIG faces the crucible
Jane Hamsher reports for firedoglake that 20,000 signatures from readers of the finance blog have been presented to the House Financial Services Committee in time for the AIG hearing. Like millions of Americans, they’re outraged over the liberties AIG has taken with taxpayer bailout money for executive [...]
Google-sized bonuses
President Obama caught a lot of people’s attention when he talked about the $500,000 salary cap for executives who work for companies that are being bailed out by the government. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings even went so far as to suggest that ANY CEO who makes $1 million or [...]