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Poor Incentive

July 2026
1min read

I enjoyed the “Business of America” column on executive compensation in the September issue. I hate to think how much time and effort we are all going to spend getting around the milliondollar limitation. If we only put that effort into productive means, we could probably add a full percent to the GNP.

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