Japan Airline’s CEO Slashes his Pay Below the Pay of Pilots
By Barry Ritholtz - December 8th, 2008, 2:15PM
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Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852
Macro Notes
US$ at high of day…Peter Boockvar
The US$ is at the high of the day vs the euro coincident with Greek CDS at the wides of the morning by 20 bps to 307 bps following the news this morning. This level is a 2 week high. In sympathy, CDS is wider in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland. Bond yields are higher too and Greek stocks in particular closed down 3.4%. There is also an idiotic rumor out there that the Fed is again going to raise the discount rate after doing so a month ago. While they easily may but likely won't anytime soon, there is...
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December 8th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
It would seem that CEO abstention from bonuses (and in some cases, even salaries!) is gaining favor, perhaps we are seeing the pendulum swing back on the ratio of executive compensation to average employee compensation …
(see figure 3, p 58):
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/AppliedEcon/archive/pdf/FrydmanSecondPaper.pdf
Although for it to get back to the 50X-60X regime that we had up until the 1990s, that may take a while.
In any event, prolly just another signpost on the way to the Twilight Zone, another indicator of how bent our economy has become. Ballooning debt, outa-control-leverage, and obscene executive compensation.
I would not mind seeing legislation to tax the living daylights out of corporations that pay, and individuals that receive, executive compensation above 60X employee compensation in public companies, on an averaged basis over the prior 5-to-7 years. Prolly not worth the time to legislate, tho’, as the corporation’s legal and accounting resources would be diverted from the important business of the company’s business to finding ways to shovel obscene amounts into deferred compensation plans, retirement plans, and golden parachutes.
December 8th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Yikes! Don’t do that. Do you know what it’s like to read, “Japan Airline’s CEO Slashes..” the first time through when you don’t know how the sentence ends?
December 8th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
lots of talk about nationalized healthcare, the ongoing nationalization of wall street, and i propose (a nutso) nationalization of executive compensation:
http://www.gongszeto.com/journal/2008/12/3/ethical-capitalism-20-towards-a-nationalized-executive-compe.html
don’t freak out too much – it’s only a thought exercise.
best,
gong szeto