Tuesday, October 5, 2010

On the Politics of Hate Speech: Wilders in the Netherlands

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Geert Wilders, head of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands, went on trial on October 4, 2010, in the Netherlands on charges of i...
Friday, September 17, 2010

Is States' Rights in the E.U. Racist?

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Thousands of Romania’s Roma people (also known as Gypsies) headed for the wealthier Western E.U. states, setting off a clash within the Eur...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

Obama's Economic Stimulus: Insufficiently Focused

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The $800 billion stimulus law had as much (or more) to do with improving the education system and rail lines, installing universal broadba...

A Structural Conflict of Interest inside BP

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Mark Bly, BP’s head of safety and operations, released an internal report  on September 7, 2010  blaming not only the company, but also its...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The U.S. Tea Party: Anti-War and Pro-States?

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When he was the republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, Rand Paul claimed that there was not enough money in entitlement prog...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Weening Businesses Off Debt: A Difficult Recovery?

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We might view the recovery from the financial crisis of 2008 as a systemic correction in which managers were weened off their reliance (i.e....
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Best Buy: A Retail Company Using Apology to Sell Still More

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As I was entering a “Bestbuy” store one summer day wearing shorts and a tee shirt and carrying my ubiquitous book bag (as you might expect)...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

On the Value of Wealth in American and European Society: Who Should Receive the Trophy in Sports?

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Just after winning the World Cup of 2010, FIFA officials handed the trophy to the team captain of the Spanish team rather than to the coach...
Friday, July 2, 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court Deciding Federalism Cases: A Structural Conflict of Interest

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Regarding the US Supreme Court being the decider of last resort, Madison’s Report of 1800 reads in part, “this resort must necessarily be ...

Immigration and Federalism in the U.S.: Should Border States Participate?

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On July 1, 2010, on the precipice of another July 4th celebration, President Obama told an audience that immigration was, in sum, “broken.”...
Sunday, June 20, 2010

BP Clips Societal Norms

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In Senate testimony on May 11, 2010,  the three companies did their best to point the finger at each other, with the result that neither ...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

A Recipe for Regulatory Recidivism: the MMS and FAA

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In 2010, the Inspector General of the US Interior Department made public a report on the federal Minerals Management Service, which regulat...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Rating Moody’s and S & P: A Structural Conflict of Interest

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For years, banks and other issuers have paid rating agencies to rate their securities. This is a bit like restaurants paying food critics t...
Friday, May 21, 2010

U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Civil Rights and the BP Explosion

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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), was the Tea Party candidate who challenged the Republican establishment to win the party’s Senate nomination in...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

On the Differential Impact of Pro-Business Cultural Values on Financial Regulation in the EU and US

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On May 18, 2010, the German state legislature banned naked short-selling of certain euro-debt and credit-default swaps, as well as some fin...