As Business Week, and Others, Have Studied the Issue of Executive

As Business Week, and others, have studied the issue of executive compensation, one observation stands out:

A) Auto executives are better paid than insurance industry executives.
B) Executive pay seems to rise despite poor or tenuous financial performance of their firms.
C) Executive compensation is directly and closely correlated with their firm's financial performance.
D) The general public is not interested in how much CEOs get paid.