Neil Kashkari wrote up the U.S. Treasury department’s Break the Glass Bank Recapitalization Plan in April, 2008—months before the financial...

The financial reform bill approved in December, 2009 by the US House of Representatives proposed to regulate the financial industry and kee...

Is the typical American self-centered and greedy, or is there a civic-mindedness that yearns to bracket one's own interests?  In other ...

The rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of property (Locke) or happiness (Jefferson) can all fit within a federal system that enables i...

Twelve times a thousand times a billion  Such a number can only be known abstractly to the human mind.  A person is not apt to see 12 trill...

Are the E.U. and U.S. commensurate? The conventional "wisdom" says no, but are most people, including most European leaders, miss...

Micheal Bennet, who represented Colorado as a U.S. Senator, told a journalist in 2009 that the possibility of losing his seat  in 2010 shou...

It was a gray rainy Monday in Berlin, yet the sun was shining for those in Europe who are celebrating the fall of the iron curtain.   Twent...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is typically thought to be a topic in the field of business ethics. If a company is socially responsi...

Although conflicts of interest do not inevitably lead to unethical conduct, they raise the probability that it will occur. Just as a torna...

Ask a European if the E.U. government could ever consolidate power from the state governments and you would probably get, Nope, we identit...

So not to work at cross-purposes, public policy at the federal level of a federal republic should not be at odds with federalism. Put anoth...

In a conflict of interest, either two duties conflict or a duty conflicts with self-interest—whether the “self” be an individual or an ass...

The American federal government was for at least a century, and perhaps even longer, primarily involved in defending the new empire and r...

In the New York convention for ratifying the U.S. Constitution, Melancton Smith favored having the state legislatures rotating their U.S. ...