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  • SEC Targets 'Cherry-Picking' Daddy

    Published May 24, 2013

    Financial advisor Charles J. Dushek bagged a 25,000% return in his individual retirement account from 2008 to 2011 despite Wall Street firms and giant banks collapsing, or the unemployment rate rocketing past 10%.

  • Paying CEOs for What Performance?

    Published May 22, 2013

    A Southwestern Law professor says America's boards of directors are transfixed on a myth: They think they are paying their chief executives for performance. They're not.

  • Aqua Man To The Rescue

    Published May 17, 2013

    An estimated 240,000 water mains break every year in the U.S. There are a handful of publicly traded water companies, and about 30,000 smaller private suppliers forming a highly fragmented industry ripe for consolidation. 

  • Southwest CEO Says All You Need Is LUV

    Published May 15, 2013

    Profitable for 40 straight years, there are plenty of theories as to how Southwest succeeds where most other carriers fail. But CEO Gary Kelly says it comes down to love.

  • 'Kick Me' Sign Becomes Federal Case for Intel

    Published May 10, 2013

    You would think a corporation the size of Intel would be schooled enough in the field of HR to prevent a "kick-me" sign from becoming a federal case. Maybe Intel tried.

  • Fix the Debt? Try Fixing CEO Pay

    Published May 03, 2013

    The group pushing  to do something about runaway deficit spending, is loaded with highly compensated CEOs who know more about prosperity than austerity.

  • Middle Class Resigned to Stagnation

    Published May 01, 2013

    Annual vacations, regular pay increases, quality healthcare, and basic job security are things now only manageable for the upper class, according to a one-third of those surveyed in a recent Allstate-National Journal Heartland Monitor poll.

  • Honeywell Has Its Hands in the Honey Pot

    Published April 25, 2013

    Justin Danhof took the floor at Honeywell International's annual meeting Monday to ask about the company's taxpayer-funded biofuels demonstration project in Hawaii.

  • Mr. Marvel Takes His Hand Off the Stick

    Published April 19, 2013

    If there's one thing Bill Marvel knows after 40 years of flying light aircraft, it's to never leave the controls of your plane to someone else. So why did he hand over control of his real estate investments to DBSI Inc., a company that went down with the market in 2008.

  • A J.C. Penney For Your Thoughts

    Published April 17, 2013

    In another economy, with more time and more money to burn, maybe former J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson's plan would have worked.