Rutter: Millionaires live a hard life in Illinois

Millionaires need nurturing, and luckily for them, they have Illinois to keep them snuggly through the cold winter. Life for the rich is complicated and challenging. Your Bentley town car is dirty. Who can you assign to take it to the executive car wash? Will we spend...

Highest-paid U.S. CEOs are often fired or fined: study

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act took steps to encourage more rational pay levels. The law, for example, requires all financial companies to disclose the ratio between the CEO’s pay and median annual compensation for employees. But a number of the mandates have yet to be...

Study: Top CEOs Earned More Than Companies Paid in Tax

Twenty-five of the 100 highest-paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax, a pay study by a Washington think tank said Wednesday. At a time when lawmakers are facing tough choices in a quest to slash the national debt, the...