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In Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith foresees that capitalist industrialists could collude with government at the expense of labor. In On the G...

In 2026, even though the U.S. had 50 member-states and the E.U. had only 27 states, both unions were large enough to constitute what in hist...

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

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...

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2024, a majority of the justices overruled Chevro...

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...

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

It is interesting that the U.S. Department of Justice did not pursue the fraudulent bankers on Wall Street not only during the Bush presid...

Robert Ross  interviewed  Lyndon Johnson’s mistress, Madeleine Duncan Brown what Ross titled, “The Clint Murchison Meeting in Dallas Novemb...

Massey Energy Co. owned the mine in West Virginia where 29 minors were killed in an explosion in 2010. Faulty water nozzles failed to stop...

In fining Google a record 2.4 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) in June, 2017, for unfairly favoring its advertisers in its online shoppi...

Five of the world’s largest tech companies—Google’s Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft—had by September 2016 been working out t...

California’s legislature approved a bill (SB 32) in August, 2016 that extends the climate targets from reducing greenhouse-gas emissions f...

Robert Califf, U.S. President Barak Obama’s nominee in 2015 to head the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), had received consulting...

At the intersection of business and government, a conflict of interest can be indicative of plutocracy, the rule of wealth, at the expense ...

In December 2014, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank granted banks an extra year past the July 2015 deadline to comply with a major provision of...

In Wealth of Nations , Adam Smith argues that the aggregation of the preferences of consumers and producers for a given good is in the publ...

According to The Wall Street Journal, a study sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2009 uncovered “a culture of suppression...

In her article in The New York Times, Gretchen Morgenson raises the possibility that Tim Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserv...