This week, the House passed a bill that imposes further regulations on financial firms - on executive pay which is bad enough in itself, and to add insult to injury, on the way those firms and employees do business. The bill is "aimed at preventing financial firms from adopting compensation systems...
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Despina Karras
on 08-02-2009
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Yesterday, President Obama urged Congress to pass credit-card reform legislation by Memorial Day. In his weekly address, he stated , "There is no time for delay...We need a durable and successful flow of credit in our economy, but we can't tolerate profits that depend upon misleading working...
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Despina Karras
on 05-10-2009
Filed under: economy, capitalism, free market, business concerns, economic recovery, economic crisis, regulation, credit card reform