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Business Leaders Urge Action on Health-Care Reform
June 04, 2009
CED has engaged business leaders, academics, and companies on the importance of action on health care reform. Those listed below have signed on to CED's public statement on health-care...
Is It Good For Shareholders To Have More Rights?
May 28, 2009
On May 20, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed regulatory changes to give shareholders the right to nominate directors to corporate boards -- so-called proxy access. Shareholders have fought for access...
USGov Insurance, Inc.: A Bad Buy
April 24, 2009
The United States desperately needs health-care reform. Costs are too high and rising unsustainably fast, pricing too many Americans out of insurance coverage. The quality of care by and large...
You Can’t Get There From Here?
April 08, 2009
Even though concerns about the U.S. health-care system continue unabated, many have concluded that the current financial crisis has rendered systemic reform infeasible. The reasoning is that the costs...
What Gets Measured Gets Done
March 10, 2009
Seven years ago, after the fall of Enron and WorldCom, President Bush called for a "new ethic of personal responsibility in the business community-an ethic that will increase investor confidence,...
First Reactions to the Budget
February 26, 2009
President Obama's budget for fiscal year 2010 (beginning October 1, 2009) was released on February 26, 2009. Technically, the budget was due on the first Monday in February, but such a quick turnaround for...
The White House Fiscal Responsibility Summit
February 25, 2009
CED Research Director Joe Minarik was privileged to have been invited to participate in the Fiscal Responsibility Summit convened by President Barack Obama. The following is a summary of the...
Fiscal Responsibility Summit
by Joe Minarik February 24, 2009
The word "summit" was to some degree a misnomer for the White House event today, because this was not a gathering of decision makers tasked and empowered to change policy...
William H. Donaldson’s remarks on release of CED’s policy statement, Rebuilding Corporate Leadership
February 18, 2009
About a year and a half ago, CED released a report titled Built to Last: Focusing Corporations on Long-Term Performance. That report called on business leaders to reject the pressures...
The Stimulus Conundrum
February 09, 2009
All Three Sides in Today's Stimulus Debate Are Off-BaseThe nation's most urgent priority right now, an economic stimulus package, is foundering. We have a three-sided - call...