Friday, October 21, 2011

Conflicts of Interest at the Federal Reserve

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In 2011, “(m)ore than a dozen members of the regional Federal Reserve boards have had ties to banks or companies that received emergency fu...

Limited Tenure For CPA Firms?

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Arthur Levitt, who headed the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1993 to 2001, “sought to root out conflicts of interest at audit firm...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

The E.U. Agenda: Taming Bloated Greek Patronage

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As E.U. leaders wrestled in the fall of 2011 with how to bail out those state governments that had been amassing relatively large semi-sove...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Slovakia Stands Up, Caves to the E.U.

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On October 11, 2011, Slovakia’s Parliament failed to approve the expansion of the euro rescue fund, a development, The New York Times repo...
Friday, October 7, 2011

The Debt Crisis: A Conflict of Interest Hampers the E.U.’s Response

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“As the European Union enters a financial crisis in slow motion,” a Huffington Post reporter avers, “the fragile American economic recove...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Foreclosing on Freddie and Fannie

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Three years after the financial crisis of 2008, nearly half of the people in Arizona with mortgages owed more than their homes were worth; ...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Meg Whitman at HP: A Leader or Manager?

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Referring to the appointment of Meg Whitman as CEO of HP, Ray Lane, chairman of the board, said, “We are at a critical moment and we need r...
Monday, September 12, 2011

Fiscal Training-Wheels for the E.U.

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The government of the E.U. state of Greece announced on September 11, 2011 that its cabinet had decided to impose a new property tax to cov...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

On the Perils of E.U. States Being In Charge

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Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister of the state of Germany, does not mince words when it comes to the state of Greece sticking to its ...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

E.U.: Ever Closer Energy

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Günther Oettinger, the energy commissioner at the E.U. Commission (the E.U.’s executive branch), said at a news conference on September 7,...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The German Court in the E.U.: Exasperating or Mitigating Germany's Veto in the E.U.?

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Did Angela Merkel violate the property rights of residents in the state of Germany by agreeing to the initial bank bailout in the E.U.? Sho...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Federalizing Fiscally: E.U. looks to Early U.S.

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I suspect many Europeans would bristle at the suggestion that Europe could learn a thing or two from American history. If the E.U. correspo...

AOL Ignores TechCrunch’s Conflict of Interest

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According to The New York Times , “When Michael Arrington, the editor of the popular Web site TechCrunch, told his bosses at AOL that he w...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Nietzsche on Bank of America

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The positive correlation between incompetence and unethical conduct at companies is striking, for, theoretically at least, a person can be ...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Angela Merkel: Leading Germany in the E.U.

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In the E.U. state of Germany, Angela Merkel had her work cut out for her in getting her coalition to carry the German House, or Bundestag. ...