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Jan D Weir

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Jul 14

Solutions: Better Than ‘Tax the Rich’, ‘Tax the Greedy Executives’

“And on the tax front, it’s time for rich people like me to pay more.”- Mitt Romney, former Republican U.S. senator

Solutions: Better Than ‘Tax the Rich’, ‘Tax the Greedy Executives’

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Jul 7

Corporations: Instruments of Value Extraction

“Companies spending billions on buybacks claim that they cannot afford to pay family-supporting wages to their employees, who largely…

Corporations: Instruments of Value Extraction

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Jun 30

How Corporate Executives Are Allowed to Insider Trade

Share buybacks represent a cancer on capitalism: if not remedied, the future of capitalism itself will be at stake.

How Corporate Executives Are Allowed to Insider Trade

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Jun 23

Why All Reforms Raised Rather Than Reduced the Executive Worker Pay

“There is no question in my mind that mediocre CEOs are getting incredibly overpaid. And the way it’s being done is through stock options.”…

Why All Reforms Raised Rather Than Reduced the Executive Worker Pay

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Jun 16

How CEOs Set Their Own Pay

“The pay ratio of annual CEO compensation relative to the average worker’s annual salary should be capped at 25:1.” -Management consultant…

How CEOs Set Their Own Pay

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Jun 9

The Executive Pay Grab

“Executive pay should be no more than 20 times worker pay.” -J. P. Morgan

The Executive Pay Grab

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Jun 2

The Bankers’ Greatest Coup

Thirteenth in a series on understanding the real business of banking to establish a more secure system and reduce it as a mechanism for the…

The Bankers’ Greatest Coup

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May 27

Exploiting the Most Vulnerable: The Perversion of Fannie Mae

Exploiting the Most Vulnerable: The Perversion of Fannie Mae

Exploiting the Most Vulnerable: The Perversion of Fannie Mae

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May 19

Why the US Bank System Remains Dangerously Fragile

“Why are some societies able to construct banking systems that avoid banking crises, while others are not?” — economists Charles Calomiris…

Why the US Bank System Remains Dangerously Fragile

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May 5

Keeping Colossal Banker Executive Pay Safe

“Why did nobody see it coming?”-Queen Elizabeth II, to economics professor Luis Garicano, November, 2008.

Keeping Colossal Banker Executive Pay Safe

Jan D Weir

Jan D Weir

Lawyer, 50 years of experience. Taught law at the University of Toronto. Represented banks in $400M+ lawsuits, led class action benefitting 40,000+ pensioners.

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