Will The Corporate Powder Keg Ignite A Populist Explosion?
by Arianna Huffington
August 19, 2002

"The current epidemic of infectious greed has the potential to ignite an explosion of populist outrage -- one with the power to remake our democracy. The question is: Who will light the fuse?"

When I logged on to AOL to check my e-mail last week, I was more than a little surprised to find myself confronted not with one of those annoying pop-up ads for a cheap subscription to Teen People or the now-standard promo for the latest Warner Bros. movie, but with the faces of three smiling men. The caption read: 'The Greediest Execs of All: They made billions as investors lost big.'

Intrigued, I clicked on the accompanying link and was transported to "The Greedy Bunch," Fortune magazine's exhaustive evisceration of America's most avaricious executives -- featuring blood-boiling stories such as "You Bought. They Sold." and "The Cash Out Kings.". . . . .

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