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Marginal benefits

…onboard is not good for the taxpayer. But the question of value – how much value individuals bring to an organization – is more general. Essentially its a marginal benefits…

Regulatory Reform

…align executive compensation practices of financial firms with long-term shareholder value” — is a description of what should happen, rather than a plan to make it happen. Here, strangely, I…

BCCI : memes and memories

…which was settled for $175 million in 1998. A further lawsuit against the Emir of Abu Dhabi, a major shareholder, was launched in 1999 for approximately $400 million. BCCI creditors…

The President met Mr Buffet

…explaining to do to a certain major shareholder and director). Googling Buffet site:angrybear.blogspot.com will demonstrate that I can’t claim to have been led astray by the Washington Post. update II:…

The AIG Bonuses… A Letter to Our Leaders

…the options now suck. As an American citizen (and thus a shareholder of AIG) I don’t want the money coming back from AIG (what’s this clawback $#!&?), nor do I…

Salmon and Barnett on the $500,000 limit

…own interests above those of shareholders and then go bankrupt. If management refuses bailout money and the bank goes under they will have shareholder lawsuits to worry about and that…

Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better

…typical shareholder. “The goal is to produce a stream of income, post target-date, which helps people maintain income for life.” Fidelity isn’t the only leading fund company to have reworked…

Wasting More Money

…on the Internet. C-Span?? C-SPAN???) If anyone wants to understand “moral hazard,” just imagine being a WFC shareholder* who watched your bank do due diligence and is about to watch…