rdan As the Obama administration issues executive orders and eventually implements policies, we have an obligation to watch how policies mature and how they are actually implemented. As cactus has…

…a great idea… Credit Suisse announced today that bonuses for its top executives would be made in illiquid, mortgage-backed securities. Seeing as these guys are responsible for getting this stuff…

rdan Financial Times shows us that One day after announcing strict limits on salaries and bonuses for its top tier of executives, AIG revealed that some of those executives will…

…that has already prompted criticism. The government’s cash has been poured in on the condition that excessive executive pay would be curbed. Pay plans for bankers have been disclosed in…

…2007 executive order that expanded the powers of RPOs. President Bush’s E.O. 13422 — http://www.ombwatch.org/article/archive/477which amended E.O. 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review — dramatically expands the power of the RPO….

…bombed Pearl Harbor. Fear and war hysteria swept the nation. A Presidential Executive Order directed the internment of Japanese Americans as a matter of national security. Now, with the passage…

…over the revision to the ozone standards, executive power in theregulatory process, especially when wielded by OIRA, may trump any congressional mandate or needfor public protection. OIRA uses cost-benefit analysis…

CEO Nacchio of Qwest has a write up in WAPO: A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for…

…simply make up authority that Congress had not granted the Executive Branch. It would seem Justices Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas are not bothered by the excessive reach of the Executive…

This sounds about right: Storms Show A System Out Of Balance GOP Congress Has Reduced Usual Diet of Agency Oversight Congress… has had little appetite in recent years for executive…