Jonathan Zalewski writes for the Foundation for Economic Education about one of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren‘s most poorly conceived policy proposals. On April 3, Warren introduced the Corporate Executive Accountability…
It’s fascinating to watch CEOs launch into contentious political and social debates. Here at JLF, we’ve devoted two of our Shaftesbury Society presentations to the issue. Last month, Duke Professor…
Tesla is no stranger to criticism within this forum. The latest example involves Vito Racanelli‘s assessment for Barron’s of the new pay deal announced for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. However…
Winston-Salem Journal’s Richard Craver reports Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions is suing the state of North Carolina to continue paying CEO Richard Topping a salary of more than $600,000: Cardinal, the…
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online that the latest round of UNC chancellor pay raises will not be based on performance. John Hood’s Daily Journal highlights a series of…
Charles Murray highlights for the American Enterprise Institute an interesting take on rising pay for CEOs. He starts by quoting a “fan letter” about his book Coming Apart. That letter…
That’s another trope of the statists, always eager to make political hay by capitalizing on envy. The AFL-CIO, for example, tosses around figures that purport to show that corporate presidents…
M.D. Kittle reports for Watchdog.org about interesting new research linked to crony capitalism (a favorite research topic of Jon Sanders’ under the name Carolina Cronyism). In what may come as…
Thank you, MarketWatch, for possibly the best explanation of CEO pay I’ve ever seen.
The big distraction that Obama and his “progressives” are using now to whip up support among clueless, shortsighted, envious Americans is the inequality issue. “Isn’t it unfair that the CEO…
From the Detroit News comes the surreal story of the day. General Motors Co. is sponsoring a two-month cross-country tour on the importance of free enterprise in the U.S. economy.…
It is crony capitalism at its worst. Executives at taxpayer-bailed out firms received Treasury Department-approved pay hikes — your hard-earned tax dollars at work. The Special Inspector General for the…