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Changing Cost Environment and Frustration

…getting ahead feels completely out of reach. Corporations boast about skyrocketing profits, shareholder payouts, and executive compensation packages. Typically, one can find headlines boasting new innovative tactics corporations have unveiled…

Presidential Enrichment

…hers later on. Andrew Johnson was partly impeached for actions seen as undermining public trust. Though not directly labeled “emoluments” violations in the modern sense, showing early conflicts over presidential…

Taking his Cut

…companies to his will. Over the past year, the president has even made the federal government a corporate shareholder across a range of industries. Just last week, the Commerce Department…

Joined the GE Capital Board in 1997

The cause of that “small tax bill”: Immelt said a small tax bill for 2010 was due to more than $30 billion in losses related to GE’s financial services business…