Matt Hopkins
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Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.
US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model
Price gouging in the US pharmaceutical drug industry goes back more than three decades.
A Public Comment on the SEC Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule
In this comment, we explain our objections to the SEC’s current formulation of the Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule on each of three grounds: the erroneous estimation of CEO pay; the unclear specification of the “median” worker; and the risk of normalizing a pay ratio that is far too high. Then we present the latest data on the remuneration of the 500 highest-paid CEOs in the United States, demonstrating the way in which the SEC’s measure of CEO pay that enters into the CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio tends to systematically underestimate actual executive pay.
If CEO Pay Was Measured Properly, It Would Look Even More Outrageous
Research funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking has revealed that the SEC reports executive compensation using a formula that routinely undercounts it