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  • Carrots and Sticks - Bogus Bonuses for Free-Rider CEOs

    one powerful incentive of free-market ideologues on Wall Street is to distort the role and context of incentives themselves to result in outcomes more consistent with monopoly capitalism than effective competition for example, the carrot-and-stick analogy is a popular portrayal of incentives which is commonly applied to justify particular ...
    Posted to IM by barry payne - economist on January 31, 2009

  • ‘Twas The Night Before Bailouts. The Video

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBB_pDZSKYQ by Gregory Bachelis, aka mathpol ‘Twas the night before bailouts, and all through the nation Not a business was stirring, not large corporationsTheir requests had been sent to Congress with care In hopes that Pelosi, or Reid, would give them a share The CEO’s had their hopes set on the Fed And ...
    Posted to Slate V: News and Politics by mathpol on December 9, 2008

  • "Twas The Night Before Bail-Outs

    ‘Twas the night before bail-outs, and all through the nation Not a business was stirring, not large corporationsTheir requests had been sent to Congress with care In hopes that Pelosi, or Reid, would give them a share The CEO’s had their hopes set on the Fed And visions of bonuses danced in their headsI was at home, full of hope and ...
    Posted to Moneybox by mathpol on December 4, 2008

  • two steps back

    salaries in america are falling toward china and india while housing prices have skyrocketted to ceo-bonus heights.we should be raising average salaries to $200,000not lowering our home prices to third-world levels --the fat-cats need a pay cut.slammed by speculative-high home-prices that our wages can't afford,pressed to choose between global ...
    Posted to Moneybox by free2write on October 9, 2008

  • ADHD is adaptation to the present

    History my butt, ADHD is an increasing advantage in a world increasingly controllable, and where mundane tasks are increasingly automated... it makes us resist authority... It makes us unable to spell... think about it, if most people had ADHD, an overbearing authority, religous or governmental, is inpossible unless you drug them. Think of CEOs ...
    Posted to Human Nature by joshvaldes on June 12, 2008