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CEO Pay: A Teeny-Weeny Secret for Rich Folk

The House Financial Services Committee has voted to repeal a provision in last year’s Dodd-Frank financial reform law requiring public corporations to report the ratio between CEO and median worker pay. (more)

Posted on Jun 28, 2011 READ MORE | 5 COMMENTS

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Frank Hails ‘Major Breakthrough’ in Financial Regulation

On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee voted in favor of a bill aimed at creating the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Agency, a watchdog organization designed in response to President Barack Obama’s call for greater oversight and regulation of banks and other financial companies in light of the past year’s economic implosion.

Posted on Oct 22, 2009 READ MORE | 4 COMMENTS

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Zooming In on the Year’s Biggest Hoax

By Robert Scheer —

Who are these people? I am not referring to the pathetic parents of “Balloon Boy,” whose fake drama I have been unable to escape while on the treadmill this week, thanks to my gym’s insistence on tuning its flat-screen TVs to Wolf Blitzer’s nonstop self-parody.