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Vote for Amy Michielle Freeman!

Election for Minneapolis Area Realtors (“MAR”) 2020 Board of Directors I’m delighted to enthusiastically endorse my Edina Realty – City Lakes colleague, Amy Michielle Freeman, for MAR Board Director. Not only is Amy a terrific Realtor, she is a wonderful human being: full of energy, deeply caring, and always fun to talk to about real...
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Comparing Former RJR Nabisco CEO F. Ross Johnson, 9/11, and Richard Nixon

WSJ Obituary:  “RJR chief’s exploits helped push boards to be more vigilant” “F. Ross Johnson is mainly remembered for the fleet of corporate jets that ferried him to celebrity golf events and other luxurious perks he awarded himself as CEO of RJR Nabisco Inc. . . . Yet the Canadian-born executive may have done some...
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Attacking Wall Street’s Attackers

“But isn’t that . . . ‘Socialism’??” He who frames the question wins the debate. I’ve been struck in recent months, talking to various people about the economy, by two things: One. The generally limited vocabulary people have when it comes to understanding all things financial — even people who are otherwise very sophisticated, well-educated,...
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Ritholtz: CEO’s Paid for Volatility, Not Performance

Making the Janitor’s Annual Salary . . . Every 3 Hours! The inimitable (and frequently bombastic) Barry Ritholtz, author of The Big Picture blog, has a great post today dissecting absurd CEO compensation titled “American Pastime: Overpaying CEO’s.” His piece basically picks up where my post last Thursday (“Parsing Occidental CEO Ray Irani’s ‘Excellent Performance'”)...
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Parsing Occidental CEO Ray Irani’s "Excellent Performance"

Obscene Exec Pay: Exhibit A In a year when pay for chief executives overall fell, Ray R. Irani came out on top. The longtime head of Occidental Petroleum was awarded total compensation of $52.2 million, up from $49.9 million in 2008. The oil company’s directors believe in “excellent pay for excellent performance,” and Mr. Irani’s...
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