On AlterNet: ceos

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New Wave of Shareholder Activism Aims to Make Corporations Behave Better--Whether They Like it Or Not

Leo Gerard, AlterNet. May 22, 2012.

Concerted action by shareholders, workers and public interest groups compelled corporate change in several other cases this spring as well.

The Reason CEOs Make 350 Times More Money Than Their Workers -- And Why That's Terrible for the Economy

William Lazonick, New Deal 2.0. July 25, 2011.

The top dogs have a huge interest in allocating corporate resources to jack up their companies’ stock prices, thanks to some terrible decisions by the SEC.

Incompetent Russian Spies Get Speedy Justice, While Wall St. Criminals Face No Consequences

Danny Schechter, AlterNet. July 12, 2010.

Our government can sort out international espionage affairs in the blink of an eye. So where's the justice for our financial criminals?

Wealthy CEOs Conspire to Influence Elections for GOP

Raw StoryFebruary 8, 2010.

Wall Street CEOs have formed a group to take advantage of new fundraising possibilities opened up by the Supreme Court decision to end the ban on corporate election spending.

It's Not Hard to Be a Job-Slashing, Pension-Grabbing CEO -- If You're a Sociopath

Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp. July 28, 2009.

CEOs in America pull in the big bucks because there's a shortage of people willing to destroy the lives of many other human beings.

What Happens When Angry Citizens Crash the Gates of America's CEO Class?

Mark Ames, Playboy.com. May 2, 2009.

They chicken out at the last minute. Recounting the doomed bus tour of AIG executives' posh homes in Connecticut.

Ridiculous: More CEOs Received Pay Hikes Than Cuts in 2008

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress. April 14, 2009.

The AFL-CIO has launched a new Executive PayWatch site.

Top Obama Bank Watchdog to Call for CEO Heads to Roll, Attacks Geithner-Summers Plan

James Doran, The Observer UK. April 7, 2009.

Elizabeth Warren says infusing money "into a financially troubled entity without demanding changes in management is preposterous."

Axing CEOS Is Entertaining, But It Doesn't Solve Our Economic Crisis

Frank Rich, The New York Times. April 6, 2009.

Obama fired GM CEO Rick Wagoner as symbolic concession to public rage. Let's see some major economic reforms.

AIG Bonuses Scandal: CEOs Take Our Billions and Are Accountable to No One

Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. March 15, 2009.

Even with a new administration dedicated to doing it all differently, Americans still have little say over what is happening with our money.

Bailed-Out Wall Street CEOs Still Leasing Private Jets

Satyam Khanna, ThinkProgress. February 12, 2009.

They're also hoping to keep up to $1.5 Million in salary this year.

CEOs Gone Wild: Bailed-Out Wells Fargo Plans Lavish Corporate Getaway to Vegas

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress. February 4, 2009.

What are the President and Congress doing to curb Wall Street greed?

The 10 Greediest People of 2008

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. December 23, 2008.

For obvious reasons, we probably couldn't have picked a better year than 2008 to "honor" our most avaricious.

Heckuva Bailout: Citi and AIG Still Pay Hundreds of Millions in Sports Sponsorship

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake. November 24, 2008.

"This type of spending is indefensible and unacceptable to Citigroup's new partner and largest investor: the American taxpayer."

Fat-Cat Automakers Beg for Taxpayer Money While Flying in Private Jets

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. November 19, 2008.

If they had flown first-class it would have been embarrassing. But company-owned private jets?

Busted: AIG Caught Living High on the Hog with Taxpayers' Money (Again)

Ben Armbruster, ThinkProgress. November 12, 2008.

AIG CEO Edward Liddy should be in jail.

AIG Blows Through Taxpayers' Money at the Ritz

Lisa Derrick, Firedoglake. October 9, 2008.

Your tax dollars at work ... er ... play.

AIG Execs Receive a Flogging from Congress

Lagan Sebert, American News Project. October 8, 2008.

Watch as AIG CEOs Robert Willumstad and Martin Sullivan get harshly criticized by members of Congress.

Bush Backs Unlimited Compensation For Wall Street CEOs

Amanda, ThinkProgress. September 22, 2008.

Bush wants zero punishment for those reckless CEOs who lost shareholder money and are now costing each person in the U.S. $2,000.

SEIU Head Andy Stern Knows How to Restore America's Middle Class

Robert Greenwald, Meet the Bloggers. September 13, 2008.

From this week's Meet the Bloggers.

Why Aren't Corporate Interests Organizing Against Policies that Hurt Them?

Nader.orgJune 26, 2008.

No matter how much economic gain is at stake, business groups stick together -- it's all about the power.

Fat Cat CEOs Too Dumb to Use Computers

Scott Thill, AlterNet. June 11, 2008.

Will their ignorance ever catch up with them?

2006 Injustice By the Numbers:

Elana Levin, December 28, 2006.

40 Facts on The State of Inequality in America