I do swear to God that I am really and truly doing research about making investments. I promise I am investigating ways to pick stocks and mutual funds, and I promise to pass any and all of what I find onto you.  But I must admit the ethical aspects of investing and business do fascinate me. So yes, I am digressing again!

This morning while perusing a few online business articles, I came across this gem from Fortune magazine: "Top CEOs Make More Than 300 Times the Average Worker." This article was written in response to a report from the Economic Policy Institute released on Father's Day.

So of course me being me, I had to check this out. The gist? Adjusted for inflation, over the past 36 years CEOs have seen an increase of almost 1000% in pay, while most of us in the USA saw a pay raise of 11% over the same period of time.

According to this article, back in 1965 the ratio was considerably different than it is today: for every dollar a worker made, the CEOs made $20.

So what's happened over the past half century?

Read more about it at http://fortune.com/2015/06/22/ceo-vs-worker-pay/

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