{"id":672,"date":"2008-09-24T06:36:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2008-09-24T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:36:22","slug":"do-you-trust-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/09\/24\/do-you-trust-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you trust executives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-672\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about executive salaries among other things.\u00c2\u00a0 A few years ago, I read an interesting article on the start of the Great Depression; the author noted that wealth had never been so concentrated in so few hands as it was just before the start.<\/p>\n<p>Today I read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/24\/business\/24pay.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">In Bailout Furor, Wall Street Pay Becomes a Target<\/a>&#8221; in the New York Times. The reason I favor limiting pay for ALL executives in organizations bailed out by US taxpayers, is that I don&#8217;t trust them.\u00c2\u00a0 They took a huge load of unknown (well, now we know it was bad) risk to pad their back pockets.\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s to stop them from taking taxpayer money and padding their pockets again?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; FIs (Financial Institutions) are already researching ways to make a profit from the proposed bailout; do you trust the man behind that curtain?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-672\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 672);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-672\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-672\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about executive salaries among other things.\u00c2\u00a0 A few years ago, I read an interesting article on the start of the Great Depression; the author noted that wealth had never been so concentrated in so few hands as it was just before the start. Today I read &#8220;In Bailout Furor, Wall Street Pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,301,99],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-bailout","tag-finance","tag-new-york-times"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-aQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}