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11.23.2009 5:38 pm

Corporate boards gone wild

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bill McClellan’s recent column about Emerson Electric and it’s RIGGED board of director’s election and David Farr, Emerson’s CEO (a four letter word in disguise) was right on the mark.  It reminded me of the idea that I had years…
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11.06.2009 5:15 pm

A reason to hire me

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Re/ David Brooks (Confidence: The fatal conceit, 10/28) view that the bonus blessed CEO’s will go elsewhere if the bonuses for mismanagement don’t continue, I have an idea:. I shall offer my mismangement skills to Corporation XYZ with the admonition…
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09.09.2009 6:32 pm

Let’s look at the value added by CEOs

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There’s been much discussion about whether or not CEOs of large corporations are paid too much, since many of them get as much as 322 times the pay of their average employee. The question should be, what value do they…

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07.30.2009 6:48 pm

Instead of us paying more, Ameren execs could take less

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

AmerenUE now wants an 18% rate hike. The third requested in 3 years.

Here is a better idea. Why don’t we have Mr. Baxter and all the high-paid execs take a big pay cut.

Instead of making their millions in pay, bonuses…

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04.17.2009 9:45 pm

Restricting compensation would hinder recovery

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Banks already have begun to return federal assistance money. They don’t want to live with restrictions in executive compensation and other areas. While these restrictions have support amongst the uninformed, they are counter-recovery – a classic example of unintended consequences.

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12.09.2008 12:25 pm

Limiting CEO pay isn’t the solution

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bill McClellan suggested a maximum wage for executives of publicly traded companies. The current methods for awarding executive compensation lack effective checks against abuse of power. It’s difficult to find anyone except those in the executive fraternity themselves, who feels…

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12.01.2008 3:34 pm

What is wrong with us that we allow CEOs to treat us as slaves?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I would like to add my 2 cents worth. The column Bill McClellan wrote 11/21 was right on target. The payment to people who rise to the top of a company is obscene. They are thieves who when they leave…

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12.01.2008 3:33 pm

Free trade should not mean shipping all of our jobs overseas

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

McClellan has started something.

On Nov.21 Bill McClellan wrote an article dealing with gross injustices by the big CEOs of big and small ompanies.Even though I agree with Bill on most of his views, I disagree on bailing out the Big…

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10.09.2008 4:57 pm

Can we at least prosecute the CEOs for malfeasance?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

OK, we taxpayers are bailing out financial institutions that paid their top executives millions in bonuses even when those executives knew their companies were not only failing but cooked the books so they could make even more money. Let’s prosecute…

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10.01.2008 3:06 pm

Lower taxes for the rich as our taxes are used to bail out their mistakes?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thanks for showing theh annual pay for the top executives in St. Louis in the Sept. 28 in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Post-Dispatch founder Joseph Pulitzer started his career by exposing wealthy tax dodgers using similar public disclosure as a…

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