mint.com — At the time of writing this post, a two-tonne plug is being lowered in to the Gulf of Mexico, in an attempt to stop one of the largest oil leaks in history. In Washington this week, the blame game began, as executives of BP, Transocean and Halliburton -- the three main companies connected with the oil spill -- testified in the Senate.
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Closed AccountMay 15, 2010
Don't let a hand full of large companies make the rest look bad.
hillsfarMay 15, 2010
Individuals who own 50 to 100 or even a 1,000 shares of a company with over 3 BILLION shares outstanding have no ability to do anything significant while the boards of directors and executives are voted into place by institutional and large shareholders who often vote in their own interests, which is often not in the interests of ordinary people. Usually the only slate of candidates available for a board are hand-picked by managers or other directors, similar to how things are done in Communist countries: "You can vote for any of these people whom we select for you."Lawsuits are sometimes their ONLY option to get a company to change its practices. Rather than ridicule them, we should be glad they are joining environmentalists and other concerned groups in working to get BP to change.
fuzzynyankoMay 15, 2010
I wonder how much longer will people hire Halliburton
rotzooiMay 15, 2010
Halliburton hires its clients, not the other way around.