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Expose on Insider Loans

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-waiting-for-slashdot-to-loan-me-ten-million dept.

Ctimes2 writes "Everyone's been grousing a lot lately about high priced CEO's and compensation packages, in no small part due to the 'Enron incident'. Business2.0 has a lengthy but enjoyable feature about how corporate loans became 'compensation packages', forgivable, sometimes tax free the and norm for corporations. And Slashdot's favorite whipping boy Microsoft, while not leading the pack, certainly isn't the poster child for trustworthy finance. More importantly (or rather, to our eternal annoyance), the article provides some much needed information trolls can add to their 'CEO's are bad!' rants: "Insider lending added thrust to the long surge in executive pay that has pushed the average major-company CEO's compensation from 45 times that of the average worker in the early 1970s to about 500 times worker pay today.""

12 of 315 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp fools! or is it?

  2. oh yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pirst fost!

  3. Inside loan this! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ya, FP? Who knows...

    Inside loans, what the heck... why? why? why?

  4. Is the parent really offtopic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The topic nazis are on the loose tonight.

  5. Re:Ohhhhhhhh!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If it is the latter, you must have some kind of fucked up pants.

  6. the tasty insider treat no one can resist! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from the inside.

  7. Perhaps the word "Nerds" should be in bigger font by DEBEDb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I mean, it's interesting and all, but
    if this relates to nerds, then pretty
    much anything does. And, of course,
    anything does, including what Natalie Port...
    oh, wait, ok, Oprah wore last time in
    public, but still...

    I (I will not say "we") do look at other
    news sources besides /., and nerds at least
    know enough about Google (and its news service)
    to keep up with interesting stuff.

    I just don't think this is /. material.

    --

    Considered harmful.
  8. Re:jump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BTW, somebody mod the parent +1 interesting..

    No offense, but does anyone even listen to these requests? I'd be kind of adverse to up-scrolling rather than covering more ground.

  9. Re:Frontline "Bigger Than Enron" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "And thus, I leave slashdot."

    Why are you still bothering us, then??

  10. Re:jump by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "And thus, I leave slashdot."

    Is that your FINAL ANSWER?

  11. Re:I work hard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "And thus, I leave slashdot."

    Why are you still bothering us, then??

  12. Re:This has nothing to do with making money... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "And thus, I leave slashdot."

    Smell 'ya later!