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Thousands of articles have been written over the last two years showing the concentration of wealth in the United States and why it is accelerating. Here is a quick sampling.
- You Bought, They Sold
by Mark Gemein
Fortune Magazine - Are CEOs Worth Their Salaries
Washington Post - Fed official decries CEO salaries
by Peter G. Gosselin
Los Angeles Times - They’re Getting Richer
by Daniel Kadlec
Time Magazine - Kmart’s advisers fuel debt spiral
by Jennifer Dixon
Detroit Free Press - CEO Pay Far from Being Scaled Back
by Martin Howell
Reuters - UAL gives new CEO $3 million signing bonus, stock
USA Today - ‘CEO-itis’
- Enron the Incredible
by Dan Ackman
Forbes - The sour taste of CEO pay
By Myron Kandel
CNN Money - The Perk Wars
by Keith Naughton
Newsweek - The Emperor of Greed
By Julie Creswell with Nomi Prins
Fortune - Global Crossing: Global Flameout
By Julie Creswell
Fortune - How Telecom’s Bad Boy Did It
By Jeremy Kahn
Fortune - Bernie’s Bad Idea
By Christopher Byron
Red Herring - Foes call former WorldCom CEO Ebbers a ‘robber baron’
By Rob Urban
Bloomberg News - Investigators scrutinize $20M Tyco fee
By Kevin McCoy
USA Today - Former CEO of National Century: Man of mystery
By Edward Iwata
USA Today - Tyco chairman got a 36% raise in 2001
USA Today - Toying with the Tax Code
Office of Senator Chuck Grassley - Qwest: A New Stink Bomb
Business Week - The Secrets of Philip Anschutz
by Anthony Effinger
Bloomberg News - The Cost of Corporate Recklessness
- Drug Industry Poised to Reap Political Dividends
By Vicki Kemper
The Los Angeles Times - Cabinet Is Millionaires’ Row
CBS News - Adelphia Officials Are Arrested, Charged With ‘Massive’ Fraud
By JERRY MARKON and ROBERT FRANK
The Wall Street Journal - The Corporate Scandal Sheet
by Penelope Patsuris
Forbes - America’s Most Overworked Directors
by Lisa DiCarlo
Forbes - Enron Whodunit?
by David Boje and Grace Ann Rosile
Ephemera - Despite Recession, Perks for Top Executives Grow
by Liz Pulliam Weston
Common Dreams - Bonuses and Batting Averages
by Martin Rosenberg
Utility Business - It’s perks aplenty for those at the top
Los Angeles Times - Give That CEO a Pay Raise!
by Daniel Gross
Slate - Executive Excess
PBS - Enron Executives’ Benefits Kept on Growing As Retirement Plans of Employees Were Cut
By ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and THEO FRANCIS
The Wall Street Journal - Lavished with perks, executives went for the quick bucks
By Alan Clendenning
Associated Press - Report: Enron schemes reaped over $2 billion
Associated Press - Energy executives making fortunes in California
by Chris Knap
The Orange County Register - Look who’s cashing in at Indian Casinos
BY DONALD L. BARLETT AND JAMES B. STEELE
Time - Labor’s Losses, A union-sponsored corporate rip-off
by Daniel Gross
Slate
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