Elaborate on the Events That Led to a Grassroots Global

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The Answer is Many Americans are puzzled,if not angered,by the government's inability to criminally punish the big banks and bankers who profited so handsomely in the events that led to the nation's economic collapse and who,in several cases,had to be bailed out with public money following the collapse.Those same bankers have not only escaped jail,but they continue to earn stunning sums of money.Responding,however,to harsh publicity,among other factors,some of the big banks have either cut or curbed executive pay.
CEO salaries for the top 200 U.S.corporations (not limited to bankers) rose 16 percent in 2012.
Among those top 200 CEOs,the average income was 273 times the income of the average worker-up from a 20 to 1 ratio in 1965.Congress showed its concern about CEO pay in a Dodd-Frank provision requiring the Securities and Exchange Commission to give shareholders a "say on pay" by writing new rules requiring periodic shareholder voting on executive compensation.At this writing,"say on pay" seems to have encouraged attention to CEO pay,but a shareholder backlash has not yet materialized.
Anger with corporate greed and perceived abuse of power led to a grassroots global protest movement labeled Occupy Wall Street.Hundreds of peaceful protesters (mostly young,often college-educated and jobless) camped in New York's financial district in late 2011 to "restore democracy" while denouncing the "greed" and "corruption" of the "upper 1 percent." The movement then spread to many other American cities and around the globe.Occupy Wall Street gained enormous publicity as a leftist assault on corporate America and the wealthy,but the movement sputtered-perhaps for want of a clear,coherent message.Occupy Wall Street continues its efforts,but at least for the present,the attention of the broader American public has been lost.

Elaborate on the Events That Led to a Grassroots Global

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