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Wed 2010-07-21 11:01 EDT

AlterNet: Are Our Bosses Becoming Meaner?

Sam Pizzigati

...Sreedhari Desai, Arthur Brief, and Jennifer George...have been exploring the link between executive pay and ``meanness.''...they may have shifted executive pay scholarly research in a sobering new direction, with much less attention on ``performance'' and much more on raw naked power...``exaggerated power asymmetry'' can make people with power mean to people without. Contemporary corporate workplaces, the three researchers continue, regularly display this ``exaggerated power asymmetry.'' And that asymmetry, they argue, is intensifying as pay gaps between CEOs and their workers have widened...

AlterNet; Bosses Becoming Meaner.

naked capitalism Fri 2010-01-08 19:29 EST

Limiting the destruction wrought by irrational exuberance in a one-party state

Edward Harrison

I wanted to highlight a piece [Matt Taibbi] wrote yesterday called Fannie, Freddie, and the New Red and Blue. The crux of his argument is this: The partisan rhetoric is on full display in the dust-up over the unlimited liabilities coming from Fannie and Freddie thrust upon taxpayers on Christmas Eve. This rhetoric is not just beside the point, it is specifically designed to obscure the point, namely that both Democrats and Republicans, private industry and the government are culpable in the shambles our economic system has become...We effectively have a one-party system when it comes to investment in the present economic, power, and wealth structure.

destruction Wrought; irrational exuberance; limit; naked capitalism; party state.

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