Upset About Excessive CEO Pay? So Are Some BlackRock Shareholders
A proposal to put more muscle into the firm’s approach to CEO pay failed, but some are declaring it a victory anyway.
A proposal to put more muscle into the firm’s approach to CEO pay failed, but some are declaring it a victory anyway.
For New York City AIDS activist Bobby Tolbert, drug profiteering and tax dodging by financial elites is a violation of basic American values.
BlackRock, the top money manager in the world, claims to want to link performance with executive compensation. But its actions tell a different story.
We can’t just tax billionaires’ paychecks. We should tax the wealth they’ve already amassed.
America’s wealth concentration has increased tenfold since Bill Clinton first ran for president.
CEOs who avoid taxes, squeeze their customers, and refuse to pay a fair wage can’t seem to understand why the rest of America is so upset.
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Americans are used to paying sales taxes on basic goods and services, but when a Wall Street trader buys millions of dollars’ worth of stocks or derivatives, there’s no tax at all.
The financial industry’s 2015 bonuses were double the combined earnings of all Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage.
Wall Street bonuses totaled $25 billion in 2015 —double the combined annual earnings of all American full-time minimum wage workers.
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Bernie and Hillary have each laid out detailed plans to reduce inequality through reforming the tax code. Here’s where they stand.
Loophole allowed 10 companies to shave $180 million off their taxes for CEO pay last year.
In a field defined more by conformity than contradiction, here’s where the candidates split.
Five years after Dodd-Frank, we’re still waiting for Wall Street pay reforms.