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U.S. Banker June 2006 Rebecca Sausner	Corporate Governance: Ready, Aim and Fire: Shareholders Get Armed A fairly new proposal on the ballot at some institutions includes moves to require an advisory shareholder vote on compensation committee pay reports, with Merrill Lynch, Countrywide Financial and U.S. Bancorp facing votes on this issue.
The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Risk, Rot, and the Road to Recovery It's high time shareholders demanded better corporate governance from boards.
U.S. Banker April 2008 Karen Krebsbach	Lost Billions in Subprime? You Need a Performance Bonus. The heads of financial-services firms' compensation committees have a lot of explaining to do for approving the lavish pay and severance packages of executives of firms that lost billions in the subprime-mortgage meltdown.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2008 Rich Duprey	Countrywide Still Rots From the Head Another executive at the troubled mortgage company manages to land safely on his feet.
Job Journal February 25, 2007 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros:Sports Stars Can't Compete with Overpaid CEOs Can America bring it's high-flying CEOs down to earth?
The Motley Fool January 11, 2008 Rich Duprey	Countrywide's School of Higher Earning The mortgage lender's CEO stands to make a mint in severance if the Bank of America deal goes through.
U.S. Banker May 2007 Karen Krebsbach	Executive Pay, Still in the Hot Seat Shareholders are trying to gain more influence on executive pay as more resolutions hit the agenda at firms' annual meetings. But passage is proving to be tough.
The Motley Fool January 8, 2007 Rich Duprey	Is CEO Pay Really Out of Whack? Their companies' performance may be faltering, but CEOs' pay packages sure aren't. Is this a new era of corporate greed? What does it mean to shareholders?
The Motley Fool January 9, 2007 Rich Duprey	Home Depot Gets Religion The board of directors requires a two-thirds vote to approve CEO pay. Now let's see what else its members can come up with to restore investor confidence in their ability to lead Home Depot forward.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2007 Morgan Housel	3 CEOs Who Should Go Nobody is perfect, but these guys should be shown the door. Now. Read on about Angelo Mozilo... James Tobin... John Mackey...
The Motley Fool April 28, 2008 Morgan Housel	R.I.P., Countrywide Bank of America plans on ditching the Countrywide name in favor of its own less-tarnished label.
The Motley Fool April 2, 2007 Alyce Lomax	The Truth About CEO Compensation While CEOs fulfill very important roles, they should remember that they are employees, too. They must answer to shareholders, instead of their own greed and hubris.
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The Motley Fool June 2, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Listen, Learn, Change The daily headline trail for Home Depot is beginning to rival that of any high profile Hollywood breakup. Many investors and other observers are piping mad right now. But things should eventually blow over; the company itself is performing quite well.
BusinessWeek January 15, 2007 Jena McGregor	This Proxy Season, Expect A Brawl Add up shareholder anger over the backdating scandal, a slate of new rules on executive pay disclosure, increasing pressure from activist hedge funds, and more companies requiring directors to be elected by a majority shareholder vote, and a tempestuous proxy period lies ahead.
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The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Alyce Lomax	Shareholders Should Hate Golden 'Chutes The idea of a big, fat golden parachute probably sounds great to a failed CEO. But for everyone else, it's a massive, illogical waste of shareholder capital.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer	Countrywide Comforts Investors ... to a Point Countrywide's third-quarter earnings had investors celebrating, but what's the bigger picture?
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The Motley Fool June 4, 2008 Alyce Lomax	Bad News in CEO Pay Think grandiose CEO rewards don't apply in a struggling industry? Think again.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2008 Alyce Lomax	A Capitalism Reality Check With the economy floundering, and the bear market growling at the door, a crisis in confidence probably makes many people look at capitalism look like a diabolical thief in the night.
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The Motley Fool August 16, 2010 Rich Duprey	Shareholders of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your inept boards of directors.
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The Motley Fool March 14, 2008 Morgan Housel	Countrywide's Future Is Anyone's Guess With its future riding on a pending merger, legal woes add yet more strain to the mortgage lender.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2009 Alyce Lomax	Heck of a Job! Here's a Bonus! Shareholders need to start pushing back on compensation policies.
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The Motley Fool June 9, 2008 Dan Caplinger	Solve CEO Conflicts Once and for All Shareholders are willing to put up with all sorts of excesses as long as stock prices are rising. Once the market hits the skids, however, you start hearing a lot more complaints about bad management. Pick companies where management is on your side.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 Rich Duprey	Executives Gorge; Shareholders Get Bellyache The willingness of boards to hand out gross-up payments is symptomatic of a "no-holds-barred" atmosphere permeating executive suites.
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The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Let's Fix "Say on Pay" Here's the Shareholder Bill of Rights take on compensation.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2008 Tom Hutchinson	This Week in Banking Banking news: It was a roller-coaster in subprime land this past week.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2008 Morgan Housel	Countrywide Falls Off the Cliff What a difference a year can make. The embattled mortgage lender has announced a fourth-quarter loss of $422 million, compared with a gain of $622 million for the same period last year.
Bank Systems & Technology June 10, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Bonuses Still Point of Contention for Obama The President continues to push for restrictions on bonus compensation for financial executives.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2007 Nathan Parmelee	Quick Take: CEO Compensation Bill Is a No-Brainer Congressman Frank's proposed, shareholder-friendly bill is nothing that other countries aren't already doing.
The Motley Fool November 12, 2007 Bill Barker	How to Profit From This Incredible Fiasco The lessons learned from corporate scandals and insane compensation schemes can teach you much about what you need to know to succeed in mutual fund investing.
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The Motley Fool July 1, 2008 Morgan Housel	Welcome Home, Countrywide May your new life be jollier than before.
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