Saturday, June 18, 2011

Banks on Reserve Requirements: An Institutional Conflict of Interest

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As regulators were getting close to an international agreement on how much additional capital large banks that are deemed too big to fail ...
Friday, June 17, 2011

British Banking Regulation in the E.U.

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Before the financial crisis of 2008, the British government was light on banking regulation compared to other E.U. state governments. Oddl...

Long Term Capital Management

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By 1997, “after three years of strong profits for LTCM, the opportunities were drying up. There was too much money chasing the same invest...

Amtrak’s Conflict of Interest

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On June 15, 2011, U.S. House Republicans called for the breakup of Amtrak’s de facto monopoly of intercity and interstate passenger-rail ...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Word-Games Obfuscating Britain Losing a Region: Too Many Bagpipes

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Following the Scottish National Party’s victory in the Scottish region's elections in the United Kingdom) the question of whether the ...

A Health-Insurance Mandate Consistent with Federalism

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On June 7, 2011, according to the Huffington Post, “three judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel questioned whether upholding t...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Weakened U.S. Federalism as a Cause of the Financial Crisis

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Weakening federalism in the name of preemptive deregulation played a major role in enabling the financial crisis of 2008. Specifically, Ca...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Scotland: From a Region to a New E.U. State?

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In early May 2011, “the Scottish National Party (SNP) won 69 out of 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament, with about 45 percent of the vote...
Monday, June 6, 2011

On the Arrogance of Power: Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers in the Clinton Administration

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Over two years after the financial crisis of 2008, a commentator on Fox News said that the banks should not stop the foreclosure process be...
Friday, June 3, 2011

Ignoring Institutional Conflicts of Interest

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I submit for your consideration the thesis that people, particularly in American society at least, tend to have keen radar for conflicts of...
Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Wall Street Banks: Price-Making and Law-Breaking?

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The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found in 2011 that “ two Goldman employees, Deeb Salem and David Swenson, tried to...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

FIFA: Weaving an Unethical Web in a Sport

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Soccer is the world’s most popular sport. Unfortunately, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international a...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Partisan Journalism at Fox News: Stockholders and Democracy

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Roger Ailes “is the most successful executive in television by a wide margin, and he has been so for more than a decade. He is also, in a se...
Monday, May 16, 2011

The E.U.'s Membership in the U.N.'s General Assembly: An Oxymoron or Reality Catching Up?

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On May 3, 2011, the United Nations’ General Assembly passed Resolution 65/276 by a vote of 120 to 0 (with two abstentions—countries subjec...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Government Debt and Deficits: The U.S. and E.U. Federal Systems Compared

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The willingness of U.S. Government officials to print money rather than tackle tough debt-cutting measures is in sharp contrast to the appr...