CEO Pay in the Post-Meltdown, Pre-Obama Era

The recent meltdown on Wall Street has brought CEO pay back to the forefront of business news, and the election of Barack Obama might help to keep it there for a while. Things had quieted down a bit in recent years since Sarbanes Oxley was enacted and the SEC implemented its new disclosure rules, but once again shareholders are up in arms about CEOs getting huge payouts while their companies disintegrate around them.