'Hey, Verizon: Can you hear us now?' - In the Markets Blog | Crain's New York Business:
"Elections for corporate board seats can be the ultimate in Kremlinesque voting. If investors don't like the candidates offered up by management, they can't elect others. In the unlikely event they rise up and vote against a company-backed nominee or sitting member, the board member isn't necessarily forced to leave the post."
How billionaires have sidestepped a tax aimed at the rich
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*Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on
questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were
exempt, sometim...
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