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CEO Pay is out of control (with Mark Kreidler)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Is This Just Sour Grapes?

Research shows that historically up through about the 60s and into the 70s, CEO earnings would be about seven times a rank and file pay. "What we're seeing now is a proportion that's hard to even explain," he says. He suggests board vote construction so that the board just doesn't simply rubber stamp such a critical notion as what a CEO should be paying.

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