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Yes, Virginia, some US top corporate honchos take home $1 salary

Yes, Virginia, some US top corporate honchos take home $1 salary

Vikram Pandit (Citigroup chief), Edward Liddy (AIG chief), and Google senior executives Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt have all humbly taken a mere USD 1 salary. Recession does change the tides of (corporate) history. Well, USD 1 can hardly be called salary. It can’t be referred to as token, either. Honorarium, no. So, it’s probably [...]
Stop Saving the Billionaires!

Stop Saving the Billionaires!

“Giving large sums of money to the very people who caused the problems in the first place seems very unwise, to put it mildly,” said Srichand P Hinduja, Chairman of the diversified Hinduja Group. In an article in Forbes magazine, as a pre-G-20 London summit commentary, Hinduja said: “What we are witnessing is the trailer to the real movie.” [...]