Figures do not lie “but liars figger”.  Look at poor Bernie Madoff as an example.  There is a case in point if one could ever be made of how numbers, figures , data and statistics are get confused and misused in the hands of ” experts” or more rightly described downright criminals.  Its not as if the financial industry is full of the most ethical people as well.  It can be justly said that most in the “financial “  or “securities”  have zero ( or little) conscious in any manner.   Its similar to the government official who comes to visit you ( or phones ) with the introduction ” I’m from the government I am here to help you”.

The problem becomes that most people are trusting.  At the worst they trust the data and information which they are given from alleged credible sources.  On top of that these industries are supposed to be tightly controlled and regulated by the agent of society – in this the government body the  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  After all if you got a phone call late one night from an individual who claimed , and was supported by a caller id number. that they were calling from the I.R.S. would you not beleive them and take them most seriosuly.

Such is the abuse of power , whether from management types , a governmental agent or Mr. Madoff .

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“Salary has become such a minuscule component of CEO compensation that it is now largely irrelevant,” said J. Richard Finlay, founder of the Centre for Corporate & Public Governance.

Of the 386 Standard & Poor’s 500 CEOs whose companies reported under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s expanded disclosure requirements this year, salary accounted for only 9.5 percent of total pay. For the 11 CEOs in the group who earned more than $30 million, salary was just 2.7 percent of total pay.

In the group, the CEOs with the smallest salaries were:

_ Terry Considine, chairman, president and CEO of Apartment Investment & Management. He reported a salary of zero, although footnotes in the company’s proxy statement show that he received stock options valued at $600,000 as his base salary. Considine’s total pay, as calculated by the AP, was $4.8 million in 2006.

_ Richard D. Fairbank, president and CEO of Capital One Financial Corp., also had zero salary, as well as no bonus. But he was awarded $18 million worth of stock options.

Since 1997, Fairbank has been paid almost entirely in stock and options, which are pegged to Capital One’s long-term performance. The company’s proxy said the board’s compensation committee believes this is “the mechanism that most aligns the CEO’s financial rewards to the value he delivers to stockholders.”

Fairbank has 5.9 million unexercised options, as well as unearned shares and options that have not vested that the company values at $27.3 million.

_ James Rogers, president and CEO of Duke Energy Corp., received no salary in 2006. But like Fairbank, he receives most of his compensation in stock and options. His total pay for 2006 was $27.5 million.

_ Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google Inc., took home exactly $1 in salary. And his overall compensation totaled $557,466, a fraction of the $71.7 million granted last year to competitor Yahoo Inc. CEO Terry Semel, the No. 1 executive on the AP pay list.

Almost all of Schmidt’s package covered the cost of $532,755 for personal security. Schmidt, along with Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has refused to take anything more than a token paycheck for the past three years to promote an egalitarian spirit at the company.

But all three own handsome stock stakes in the company. Schmidt, 52, owns 10.7 million shares currently worth $5.5 billion.

Another $1-a-year CEO is Apple’s Steve Jobs, who’s been treading water at that level for the last three years. But Jobs, 52, also owns more than 5.4 million Apple shares that are now worth more than $660 million.

Another $1-a-year CEO is Apple’s Steve Jobs, who’s been treading water at that level for the last three years. But Jobs, 52, also owns more than 5.4 million Apple shares that are now worth more than $660 million.

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