POORMOUTH
// corporate cost-of-living claims vs SEC filings · FY2015–FY2025
Four large consumer companies told investors the American consumer is "running out of money" — while posting strong profits, returning billions to shareholders, and paying CEOs hundreds of times their median worker. The claims set against the SEC filings: net income, buybacks and dividends, and CEO-vs-median pay, every figure cited to a 10-K or DEF 14A.
- > Claims-vs-receipts: investor poor-mouthing set against profits, payouts, and pay
- > Every figure traces to an SEC 10-K or DEF 14A filing — no unsourced numbers
- > Research package (CSVs + report) is the source of truth, baked into the build
> what it does
POORMOUTH sets corporate poor-mouthing against the receipts. Four large consumer companies told investors the American consumer is “running out of money” — while posting strong profits, returning billions to shareholders, and paying CEOs hundreds of times their median worker. Same public-interest spirit as SPENDING and INFLATION: a sourced report wired to charts, backed by downloadable CSVs.
> how to read it
- >The investor claims sit beside the filings: net income, buybacks + dividends, and the CEO-vs-median pay gap, FY2015–FY2025.
- >Every figure traces to an SEC 10-K or DEF 14A — no unsourced numbers.
- >CEO net worth is intentionally left blank: these are professional, non-founder CEOs with no reliably tracked net worth, and an uncited estimate won’t be published.
- >The research package (CSVs + report) is the source of truth, baked into the build.
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