The Worden Report
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Facebook Gets Political: Corporate Social Responsibility as Pursuing the Public Good

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Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, announced in March 2013 that he and Joe Green would co-found a political advocacy group made up of ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Railroad Boom: On the Ethics of the Drawback

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In the first quarter of 2013, North America’s freight railroads were “in the midst of a building boom,” according to the New York Times ,...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Keeping the Free Trade in Free Trade: France in the E.U.

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In negotiating free-trade deals with the U.S. and Japan, E.U. officials had to reckon with differing concerns of particular state intere...
Monday, March 18, 2013

On the Ethics of the E.U. (or Germany) Making Large Cypriot Bank Depositors Pay

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After an initial assessment of Cyprus’s bank shortfall of around €17.5 billion in January 2013, the matter of a bailout came to a head two ...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

The Fed Whitewashes Citibank: Systemic Risk Understated

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As reported by Reuters in March 2013, “The newest stress tests for U.S. banks produced scores that are at odds with other measures of len...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

The Schengen Agreement: Germany Discriminating Against the Roma?

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In the case of the U.S., once someone enters one of the states, that person can move from state to state without having to show a visa or...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

JPMorgan Management Evades Stockholders

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After the $6 billion trading loss at JP Morgan, the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report raising the pros...
Monday, February 25, 2013

Ukraine: Between Two Empires

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With its Association Agreement with the E.U. effectively suspended due to concerns about the “stark deterioration of democracy and the ru...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

E.U. Passes Financial Transactions Tax (FTT)

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Out of a “desire to ensure that the financial sector fairly and substantially contributes to the costs of the crisis and that [the sector...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Challenges for E.U. Foreign Policy

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Foreign policy is typically one of the domains of power that goes to the federal level in a Union of states. The history of the E.U. in i...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Wrestling Out, Dancing In: The Modern Olympics

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Even as custom or tradition that has outlived its justification—which is not the same as usefulness —is essentially deadwood, there is pr...
Monday, February 11, 2013

U.S. Postal Service: Home Delivery Up Next?

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After years of billion-dollar losses, the U.S. Postal Service announced in February 2013 that the “long-held tradition of Saturday delive...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

E.U. Budget Cuts: David Cameron’s Strategy

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The budget deal reached by the state governments represented in the European Council in Feburary 2013 would mark the first decrease in th...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

ECB’s Draghi Resists Pressure to Devalue Euro and Stimulate Growth

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Despite pressures from the appreciation of the euro, which had hit a 15-month peak of $1.3711 on February 1, 2013, Mario Draghi of the Eu...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

S. & P. Sued for $5 Billion: Breaking a Conflict of Interest?

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In sending a message to S & P as well as Wall Street more generally regarding the excesses in the securitization of subprime mortgage...
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