Margaret Carlson, Columnist

AOL's Armstrong Is the Tin Man of CEOs

America's tone-deaf tycoons.

February 10, 2014 at 11:34 PM UTC

Margaret Carlson was a White House correspondent for Time, a weekly panelist on CNN’s “Capital Gang” and an editor at the New Republic.

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When something bad happens to a rich person, it is never the rich person's fault. That's No. 1 in the chief executive officer playbook.

No. 2 is that the rich person should use their greater power to make a lesser person pay the price of the bad thing that's happened.