Must-Read: Barry Ritholtz: How Fast is CEO Compensation Rising?

Must-Read: The floodgates opened in the late 1990s, with Clinton’s second term and the stock market boom. Why did the floodgates open, and open then, and open so much? The timing suggests the flood of insurance and commercial banking money into investment banking, and the ability of investment bankers to collect rents off of it, spilled over to CEOs who, by virtue of their ability to take their companies private and so join the Private Equity world, had effectively become investment bankers and paid like investment bankers in the late 1980s. But that is just a WAG (a Wild-A—–Guess)…

Barry Ritholtz: How Fast is CEO Compensation Rising?: “CEO compensation is growing faster than the wages of the top 0.1 percent…

…and the stock market. This is a rather amazing chart:

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August 18, 2016

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