Author: AliceDem

Stink tanks and the national agenda

Atrios highlighted this problem when he linked to an article about Hiam Saban’s support of Hillary Clinton. This is the same man who endowed the Saban Institute at Brookings and made possible Ken Pollack’s...

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Exec. pay consultants, Agents of excess

Study: eight of the surveyed companies underperformed on S&P 500 but give high payouts Back to my study. All of the CEOs of those eight companies had poor performance and high pay. Six different consulting companies worked...

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The mortgage meltdown

Bloomberg At times, Secured Funding salesmen broke the rules, according to at least three lawsuits filed last year in federal courts in St. Louis and Milwaukee. The plaintiffs accuse Secured Funding of accessing their credit...

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