The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.
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Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.
