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Health insurance plans-Goldman Sachs and Congress

…Critical Issue for Health Plan (July 27, 2009) Goldman’s 400 or so managing directors and its top executive officers participate in the bank’s executive medical and dental program as part…

Regulatory Reform

…was a precious and miraculous national treasure, but wishing for a second such miracle is not a plan. 1) Executive Compensation “Federal regulators should issue standards and guidelines to better…

Time to move beyond "Nothing" on Social Security?

…from Larry Summers. Which may be, on the other hand Liebman subsequent to that advice from Barkley landed as one of Orzsag’s top level deputies as the Executive Associate Director…

How NOT to Manage a Taxpayer-Funded Bailout

…is being written: Appoint a crony you brought with you to Treasury to run the program. Refer to him as “a former executive” in the press release because it sounds…

More Stupid Tax Code messing around

…bills to limit the deductibility of executive compensation caused the flood of executive stock options, and created a much bigger mess “ From a review by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &…

Who Will Get Rich from Katrina?

…issued this executive order: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage….

…that the number of executive and legislative branch employees fell from 1985 to 2000; the number of judicial branch employees actually increased. Because the executive branch employs by far the…