Executive pay caps punish Americans

re: Executive pay caps punish Americans

Mark Alfson — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:20:25 GMT

Mark to market should be suspended or done away with altogether? Are you high? You mean that holders of investments should be allowed to keep their investments on the books, forever (or until they are sold) at the value they had when purchased?

That's absurd and flies in the face of of the notion that financial statements contain information that is accurate. Wouldn't suspending mark to market only make the issue far worse? But hold it......if we suspend mark to market then there is no reason for us to turn over USD700,000,000,000 to Wall Street so that they can shore up their balance sheets.

Sure....let's put off today what we can argue about in a few more years.

re: Executive pay caps punish Americans

Dyal Saini — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:38:54 GMT

All the executives of failing institutes should pay back bonuses and other compensations back .How would you like to collect compensation etc from your own business which is going under.

The money collected should be used to help average americans who are loosing jobs, houses and in financial trouble otherwise

re: Executive pay caps punish Americans

Fred Stock — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:44:42 GMT

Performance based compensation makes sense to me. Compensate highlyl for outastanding performance and fire for poor performance (with a range in between). This will take care of the "Golden Parachute" issues and align compesation with most of society.