compensation caps

Though most Americans wish that Congress would rein in excessive pay on Wall Street, that won't happen while the huge campaign contributions keep flowing. And the financial industry's big money shell game drains away something more precious from our society than money -- it siphons off talent.

A new rule forcing U.S. companies to disclose the ratio between their chief executive's pay and that of the typical employee is a "logistical nightmare"", lawyers say. "It's just not do-able for a large company with tens of thousands of employees worldwide," Richard Susko, a partner at Cleary...