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...EESA requires the Treasury Department to monitor executive pay at all the firms receiving government assistance. Last summer the Treasury said firms that are deemed to be receiving exceptional aid from the government would be subject to a pay czar. The office, later filled by high-profile lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, has the ability to set compensation for the 25 highest-paid employees at those firms. Other firms receiving government assistance are subject to much less stringent pay rules. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Andrew Herzberg, along with his brother Kenneth, both former investment bankers, came up with the program after seeing sales grind to a halt on thousands of newly constructed and half-built single family homes and condos in markets such as Las Vegas, Phoenix and parts of Florida. The aim is to assist developers and homebuilders clear unsold inventory, which - at least theoretically - should then help to stabilize home prices industry-wide. (See the best business deals...
Herzberg also defended his group's experience in the field, noting that he and his brother Kenneth have spent decades in the investment banking arena, with Kenneth having worked at such firms as the Carlton Group and Madison Equities and Andrew having worked as a trader at Rosenthal & Co., and Societe Generale. "We have collectively been in the real estate business - the parties combined - for about 60 years." He adds that the program would not be financially viable in the current environment, though, without...
...controversial incident occurred just after Chaudry had beaten Yale freshman Kenneth Chan to clinch the CSA National Team championship for Trinity, its twelfth in a row. Chaudry, who is a foot taller than Chan, screamed in his opponent’s face before leaving the court and slammed the door behind him trapping Chan inside...
...That doesn't mean there's no downside. Supersized sovereign debt is likely to depress economic growth. Hefty debt payments lead to heftier taxes, which bite into consumer spending and corporate investment. Economists Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University found in a recent study that once a country's government-debt-to-GDP ratio passes 90%, growth declines by at least one percentage point a year. For industrialized economies that rarely expand more than 2% or 3% a year, that's a huge chunk. "We're coming at a point in which growth...