It is perhaps just human nature to assume that the attitude towards ethical (and unethical) business is uniform from culture to culture arou...

The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Marty Makary, “resigned” in May, 2026 even though the decision had been made by U.S. Health an...

During the coronavirus pandemic (2020-2022), Arizona’s Ducey administration allowed bus and light-rail employees to go maskless even though ...

In late 2025, the E.U. Commission presented its first European Affordable Housing Plan. The E.U.’s involvement in “social housing,” which tr...

When the wealthiest person in the world and the President of the United States cross swords, people are bound to notice. Such a very public ...

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...

While it is obvious that a business or industry can affect and be affected by its environment, such as by polluting a river and a hurricane,...

The European Commission, the E.U.’s executive branch, has been known for being a technocratic institution. Yet in drafting regulations, imp...

Circulating in Congress in the fall of 2012 was a bill that would have allowed "the White House to second-guess major rules and mand...

After a misfiring-prone automatic stall-prevention device on the 737 MAX jet had caused two accidents in which 346 people died, an internal...

Should language lose its integrity for ideological purposes? On Fox News in the wake of the passage of Obamacare, Brit Hume and Newt Gingr...

A Baylor University survey on religion and economics in 2011 revealed something that may be distinctly American, culturally speaking. The r...

Typically, responsibility is something that people working in a business typically  presume applies not to their business, but instead to s...

Two days after the LTCM bailout was agreed to in 1998, a worried Alan Greenspan, leaning toward raising rates at the time, cut the federal...

At the time of MF Global’s collapse amid hundreds of millions of dollars in lost customer funds, commodities and futures trading had for de...

According to The Wall Street Journal , Japan’s largest power provider, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), faced the biggest challenge of its...

With the transportation (i.e., fuel) and power (i.e., coal) sectors accounting for a majority of the carbon emissions in the U.S., accordin...

Typically horizontal mergers, as when one company merges with another that makes similar products, have trouble when it comes to anti-trust...

Here is an alphabet-soup of regulatory agencies that let MF Global, a financial services company that specialized in futures-trading, enga...