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The Corporate Capture of the United States

Corporate governance activist Robert AG Monks argues that American corporations today are like the great European monarchies of long ago. “Corporations have effectively captured the United States: its judiciary, its political system, and its national wealth, without assuming any of the responsibilities of dominion,” he writes. “Evidence is everywhere.”

In HBO’s ‘Too Big to Fail,’ the Heroes Are Really Zeroes

Pulitzer Prize winner Jesse Eisinger says HBO’s “Too Big To Fail” The Movie is the story of how three leading financial figures in U.S. government “didn’t see the financial crisis coming; hadn’t prepared for it; made mistake after mistake as it was cresting; and then, in their moment of triumph, made their most colossal blunder of all.”

BNY Mellon To Increase Social Investing Options

Fiduciary responsibility “has often been defined exclusively in financial terms, such as maximizing returns to provide for retired employees,” the firm said. “However, there is growing discussion that the way in which those returns are achieved is just as important.” BNY Mellon has $22.3 trillion in assets under custody or administration and $1.1 trillion under management.

Say-on-Pay Shareholder Votes Gain Momentum

The number of so-called “say-on-pay” votes has increased from only 6 in 2008, when Aflac Inc. became the first to adopt the practice, and 19 in 2009.

Opinion: When CSR Became a Movement

Bill Baue argues that CSR is not a random collection of ad hoc, discrete actions to revise corporate behavior, but rather has become a coherent aggregation of sustained, widespread efforts to reform (or even revolutionize) the role of corporations, shifting from negative to positive impacts on society, environment, and economy.

Figuring Executive Compensation: Obama Finds It Isn’t Easy

For all of President Obama’s recent criticism of “fat cats” on Wall Street, his administration and the Congress have thus far proven unable to even begin addressing the issue in any fundamental way. New evidence of that can be found in the current The New York Times Magazine cover story, which focuses on the work of Kenneth Feinberg, the “pay czar” for companies receiving bailouts under the federal government’s TARP program.

BOOKS: Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “Too Big To Fail”

New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “Too Big to Fail” is too good to put down. Chock-a-block with color and fly-on-the-wall detail, it chronicles bankers and government regulators searching desperately for solutions to the global financial crisis of 2008.