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CEO Pay Is All 'Relative'
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Cramer tackled executive compensation for the second day in a row on Wednesday's Stop Trading!, as he and “Street Signs” host Erin Burnett discussed who deserves bonuses and who doesn't.
The driving force behind these outlandish salaries and bonuses, it seems, is “relative value,” the idea that if Yahoo!’s [YHOO
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Cramer also explained the difference between the strong-performing CEOs at AT&T [T
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Lastly, while the uptick rule is good news to Cramer, a Wachovia research report said it could mean bad news for CME Group [CME
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