The debate over governmental regulation of Wall Street salaries
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Last week the Treasury Department announced a plans to cut the salaries of top executives of the seven companies that took government bailouts; the Federal Reserve also made public its own risk-based guidelines for banking salaries. Our guests include Wharton professors Wayne Guay and Michael Useem.
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