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      Freddie Mac CEO gets $19.8 million in '07

      Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

      Corporate CEO pay is a scandal no one wants to touch...here another example: If Syron stays at the helm of Freddie Mac through the end of next year, he will receive nearly $20 million in stock awards if the board says he has met certain goals. This year, he is guaranteed to get $8.8 million in stock grants regardless of performance.

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      Bad apples and bad trees

      Posted by SoxFirst

      How do you prosecute a corporation? How do you prove beyond reasonable doubt that the corporation was an accomplice to a crime? Here are ways to strengthen the law and make sure corporations don't get away with murder.

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      Primary color of the dollars

      Posted by SoxFirst

      The financial, insurance, real estate and legal indutries are putting up most of the money. These sectors have provided more than half the funding for Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Giuliani, Romney, McCain and Thompson. Not Huckabee, but he's damn close.

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    • US jobless rate increases Falling employment, stagnant wages fuel US corporate profits

      Posted by Sandyenglish

      Non-farm employment in the US rose by only 88,000 jobs in April, far lower than the 110,000 jobs expected by economists and the slowest rate in more than two years, according to a Labor Department report released Friday. The official jobless rate rose by 0.1 percent to 4.5 percent last month and would have been even higher if more than 339,000 workers had not fallen out of the job market in April due to the lack of decent employment opportunities.

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    • The trust gap between corporations and citizens

      Posted by SoxFirst

      A study shows that most consumers are sceptical about the contributions that corporations make to the public good. While 68 per cent of executives said large corporations made a positive contribution, only 48 per cent of consumers agreed. The study also shows companies don’t what’s on the minds of consumers.

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    SoxFirst

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    Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.

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