In a struggle between wealth and ethics, practically speaking the former tends overwhelmingly to win hands down, even if the form of governm...

Poised as the “new Leonine era,” worded as if gilding the proverbial lily as if a golden ring, the installation of Pope Leo XIV reinvigorate...

With all the economic and political turmoil from the anticipated American tariffs, it may be tempting, especially for financially-oriented C...

Democracy, Plato and Aristotle both thought, is a governmental system that is most susceptible to the mob—meaning mob-rule. Accordingly, the...

One of benefits of the market mechanism, by which, for example, economic goods are bought and sold, is that self-interest is relied on; peop...

Agriculture is a major source of carbon and methane emissions, which in turn are responsible for the general trend of the warming of the pla...

I submit that not enough attention is brought to bear on the root of the warming of the planet: the huge increase in human population in the...

Referring to the speculation in gold that was engineered by Jay Gould and others in 1869 to enrich themselves and the Erie Railroad, Henry A...

The rule of a few—aristocracy. The rule of the wealthy—plutocracy. Where the few, being valued above the many, are determined principally on...

The top 1% of U.S. taxpayers had 19.4% of the total income in 2007 and paid 28.1% of all federal taxes. In 1987, the top 1% had had 11.2% o...

Might the personality type most excited by inflicting pain on others be drawn to “serve” on a police force?   Might force itself be an allu...

Dividends are typically based on how much a bank (or company, moreover) has profited, less whatever capital is needed from the profit. Simi...

U.S. President Obama nominated Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury. While president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, he...

In July 2012, Andrew Williams, a former spokesman for U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, announced plans to head over to Goldman Sa...

That financial deregulation had any traction at all following the financial crisis of 2008 in the U.S. is stunning, for the implication is...

“The [U.S.] federal budget deficit is growing faster than expected as President Trump’s spending and tax cut policies force the United S...

Under U.S. law, the corporation is a legal person, whose wealth can constitute political speech protected by the first Amendment. It is n...

In his confidential memorandum, “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” Lewis Powell, later to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,...

In analyzing a merger, incorporating the macro context is vital. For very large mergers, for instance, public policy concerns inevitably su...

Facing huge violent protests, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous region of China, decided on June 15, to indef...