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Re:Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer by wpietri on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:36AM (#7604243)
Regarding the first bit, bubbles: executive pay isn't an asset. Executives are the asset. And given the enormous historical run-up in executive pay, it's not unreasonable to ask whether it will return to its earlier baseline.

It's different than the typical asset bubble in that most of the people setting executive pay are also executives. But it could still just as well be a bubble.

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Re:Yahoo spends $58 million to fire its chief operating officer by Florin_Andrei on Thursday April 17, 2014 @12:24PM (#7604542)
> executive pay isn't an asset. Executives are the asset.

If so, it's a special kind of asset, that can dictate the conditions of its own "usage".

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