IPS on the CEO Pay Caps
We applaud efforts to cap bailout pay, but are concerned about reports of weak Treasury rules.
Executive Pay and the Bailout
An analysis of new proposals for change.
Assessing the G-20 Declaration
This contradictory document identifies financial institution failures and calls for new regulatory measures, and at the same time, salutes the free market and some of the institutions behind the financial and economic crisis.
Skewed Priorities
The approximately $4.1 trillion that the United States and European governments have committed to bail out financial firms is 40 times the money they’re spending to fight climate and poverty crises in the developing world.
Bailouts Dwarf Spending on Climate and Poverty Crises
The approximately $4.1 trillion that the United States and Europe have committed to rescue financial firms is 40 times the money they’re spending to fight climate and poverty crises in the developing world.
Response to Poverty and Empire: Denial
The presidential campaign demonstrated the contemporary versions of institutionalized denial.
Make the Speculators Pay
Funds for the economic recovery should come from the Wall Street gamblers and the wealthy CEOs who profited from the casino economy.
Talking Points: Economic Meltdown
The following document is a series of talking points, in an easy-to-read question-and-answer format, on the key questions being discussed today about the global economic meltdown.
Rewrite Bailout Rules on CEO Pay
Paulson’s new plan still sides with the executives and shortchanges the taxpayers.
Analysis of Treasury Department Rules on Executive Compensation for Bailout Firms
Treasury Department’s new rules clarify some provisions in the bailout but fail to set monetary limits for CEO pay.
World Bank Should Not Be Solving Food Crisis
When it comes to food shortages around the world, the World Bank does more harm than good.
Truth, Lies, the Bailout, and CEO Pay
The bailout does precious little to limit the extravagant pay that gives top executives the incentive to behave outrageously.
IPS Statement on the Congressional Bailout of Wall Street
Congress needs to address the bailout’s unfinished agenda and fix our broken financial system.
U.S. Should Boost Nonmilitary Security
Foreign aid and diplomacy are key to strategic success.
10 Ways to Bail Out Wall Street (and Main Street) Without Soaking Taxpayers in Debt
Who says we need to borrow a trillion dollars to save Wall Street from its own excesses?