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Strategies & Market Trends : The New Economy and its Winners

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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (42946)6/15/2008 2:52:07 PM
From: RockyBalboa  Read Replies (1) of 57684
 
CEOs are bribed off big time:

AP
AP IMPACT: CEO pay chugs up in '07 despite economy
Sunday June 15, 2:40 pm ET
By Rachel Beck and Matthew Fordahl, AP Business Writers
AP IMPACT: Even as economy grew cloudy in 2007, CEO pay chugged ever higher, AP analysis finds

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At the top of the AP list: John Thain, who took the reins of Merrill Lynch on Dec. 1, 2007. His $83 million pay package was supercharged by a signing bonus and other enticements that lured him from the New York Stock Exchange to lead the investment bank as it was suffering its worst-ever losses.

Collectively, the 10 best-paid CEOs made more than half a billion dollars last year. Yet half the members of this stratospheric club were leading companies whose profits shrank dramatically.
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