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- From: Kevin Layer <layer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:56:28 -0700
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I use w3m with MH-E to render HTML emails.
I see this rendering of an email:
Message-ID: <1102484428892.1101915333743.149.8.16131001@scheduler>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:14:37 -0500 (EST)
From: ...
To: layer@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: From the ashes, a new SEC attitude
Pension Dynamics
Month Day, Year
From the ashes, a new SEC
attitude
Help is on the way. At the
Securities Exchange
Commission, Mary Shapiro
replaces Christopher Cox, the
former Orange County U.S.
representative who ran the
agency into the ground.
Apart from the fact that there
were unfilled vacancies on the
commission for a good part of
the Cox era, we are now
learning that SEC policy was
to allow no legal action to
move forward without express
approval from the handful of
commissioners on the board.
Considering that there were
typically about 700,000
whistleblower reports per year
that warranted at least a
follow up, this sounds to me
like a deliberately broken
system --- the "less is more"
school carried to a perverted
extreme.
Those days are over. The new
commissioner is moving forward
at warp speed appointing
people to positions that
remained unfilled for months
under the previous
administration. My favorite
appointee is Kayla Gillian,
former CALPERS counsel, who
engaged in a squabble with
Commissioner Cox a year ago
when she was with the Public
Company Accounting Oversight
Board. Seeing itself as the
handmaiden of corporate
management, the SEC was
swatting away attempts at
accounting board oversight.
Those CPA concerns might just
as well have been some 700,000
mosquitoes.
One of Gillian's first orders
of business will be to lead a
new investor advisory council
and explore practical ways to
empower shareholders in
corporate governance issues.
Choosing corporate directors
and limiting executive pay
would be the natural
by-product of these efforts.
Whatever most other
industrialized countries have
adopted should be good
starting point.
We don't have to reinvent the
wheel.
Speaking of wheels, when
Chrysler was purchased by
Mercedes-Benz a few years
back, the first thing Mercedes
told Chrysler's top management
was that the gravy train was
ending.
They would not be paid more
than Germany's top management
wage scale. Chrysler may have
since fallen on hard times
since then, but at least
during its Mercedes era, we
didn't have grotesque
management compensation adding
insult to injury.
While Congress is currently
pondering the thought of doing
away with the SEC altogether,
that would be throwing the
baby out with the bathwater.
Meanwhile, Arthur Levitt would
be great to have back on
board.
The former and longest-serving
SEC chairman wrote the book
"Take on the Street" a few
years ago. The subtitle was,
"What Wall Street and
Corporate America Don't Want
You to Know - What You Can Do
To fight Back."
Arthur Levitt's book
illustrates the extent to
which the SEC is heavily
politicized.
After all, the agency exists
at the will of Congress, so it
can't be immune to political
pressure.
Until the wheels totally fell
off during the most recent
regime, it was one of the most
bipartisan departments -
well-insulated from the graft
and corruption that politics
can introduce.
Hopefully, there are signs
that this independence will
become the norm once again.
Shapiro's other choices for
top administrators include the
irrepressible Harvey Pitt who
was fired a few years back
for, among other things,
trying to make the SEC
chairmanship a cabinet level
post, but he is reputed to be
extremely knowledgeable and
tenacious.
Now that he has the right
handlers, we can expect more
from him.
When we look back on this
"downdraft" a few years from
now, I think we'll conclude
that it was one of the best
things that could have
happened to us. Corporate
governance and responsible
management have become an
increasing right to us
stockholders with every pay
period's 401(k) deposit.
Until this crisis, we were
heading for a world with no
regulation and no opportunity
to even initiate lawsuits
against companies that were
ripping us off. This time, we
have finally driven a spike
through the heart of what C.
Wright Mills called "The Power
Elite" in his '50s era book on
the limitless control of
modern corporate management.
This experience is costing us
all something, no question,
but we have to remember, "No
pain; No gain."
Which looks very different than when I put the code into Firefox and
look at it--the w3m version is very narrow and hard to read.
`links', the other method of viewing html messages in MH-E renders it
much better, though not perfect.
Here's the original html:
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<b>Month Day, Year</b>
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<td style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" valign="top" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><strong><font face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">From the ashes, a new SEC attitude</font></strong></font></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" align="left"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"> </font></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><br />Help is on the way. At the Securities Exchange Commission, Mary Shapiro replaces Christopher Cox, the former Orange County U.S. representative who ran the agency into the ground.<br /> <br />Apart from the fact that there were unfilled vacancies on the commission for a good part of the Cox era, we are now learning that SEC policy was to allow no legal action to move forward without express approval from the handful of commissioners on the board. Considering that there were typically about 700,000 whistleblower re!
ports per year that warranted at least a follow up, this sounds to me like a deliberately broken system --- the "less is more" school carried to a perverted extreme.<br /> <br />Those days are over. The new commissioner is moving forward at warp speed appointing people to positions that remained unfilled for months under the previous administration. My favorite appointee is Kayla Gillian, former CALPERS counsel, who engaged in a squabble with Commissioner Cox a year ago when she was with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Seeing itself as the handmaiden of corporate management, the SEC was swatting away attempts at accounting board oversight. Those CPA concerns might just as well have been some 700,000 mosquitoes.<br /> <br />One of Gillian's first orders of business will be to lead a new investor advisory council and explore practical ways to empower shareholders in corporate governance issues. <br /> <br />Choosing corporate directors and limiti!
ng executive pay would be the natural by-product of these efforts. </font></div>
<div style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;" align="justify"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><br />Whatever most other industrialized countries have adopted should be good starting point.<br /> <br />We don't have to reinvent the wheel. <br /> <br />Speaking of wheels, when Chrysler was purchased by Mercedes-Benz a few years back, the first thing Mercedes told Chrysler's top management was that the gravy train was ending. <br /> <br />They would not be paid more than Germany's top management wage scale. Chrysler may have since fallen on hard times since then, but at least during its Mercedes era, we didn't have grotesque management compensation adding insult to injury. <br /> <br />While Congress is currently pondering the thought of doing away with the SEC altogethe!
r, that would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Meanwhile, Arthur Levitt would be great to have back on board. <br /> <br />The former and longest-serving SEC chairman wrote the book "Take on the Street" a few years ago. The subtitle was, "What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know - What You Can Do To fight Back." <br /> <br />Arthur Levitt's book illustrates the extent to which the SEC is heavily politicized. <br /> <br />After all, the agency exists at the will of Congress, so it can't be immune to political pressure. <br /> <br />Until the wheels totally fell off during the most recent regime, it was one of the most bipartisan departments - well-insulated from the graft and corruption that politics can introduce. <br /> <br />Hopefully, there are signs that this independence will become the norm once again. Shapiro's other choices for top administrators include the irrepressible Harvey Pitt who was fired a few years!
back for, among other things, trying to make the SEC chairmanship a cabinet level post, but he is reputed to be extremely knowledgeable and tenacious. <br /> <br />Now that he has the right handlers, we can expect more from him. <br /> <br />When we look back on this "downdraft" a few years from now, I think we'll conclude that it was one of the best things that could have happened to us. Corporate governance and responsible management have become an increasing right to us stockholders with every pay period's 401(k) deposit.<br /> <br />Until this crisis, we were heading for a world with no regulation and no opportunity to even initiate lawsuits against companies that were ripping us off. This time, we have finally driven a spike through the heart of what C. Wright Mills called "The Power Elite" in his '50s era book on the limitless control of modern corporate management. This experience is costing us all something, no question, but we have to remember, "No pain; No gain." <br /><br /><br /></font></div></font></td></tr></table>
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