Friday, April 17, 2015

Hollywood’s Conflict of Interest in Trade Negotiations

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At the intersection of business and government, a conflict of interest can be indicative of plutocracy, the rule of wealth, at the expense ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Breaking Up the Biggest Banks: The Impact on Moral Hazard

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Citing the “slap on the wrist” culture at the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), U.S. Senator Elizabeth...

God's Gold: Banking and Monopoly

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A decade or so into the twenty-first century, a typical business practitioner might suppose that godliness and greed live in two utterly d...
Monday, April 6, 2015

Wall Street CEOs Suffering with Lower Pay: Self-Preservation or Greed?

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As much as the titans on Wall Street pull in during a year, they still want more. It must be human nature. If so, nature may be at odds wit...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

Walmart’s Strategic Use of Public Policy on Social Issues

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In coming out publicly in favor of the governor of Arkansas rejecting legislation that critics claimed could allow discrimination against g...

Pope Francis: A Poor Church Rich in Humility

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Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), Pope Francis set about implementing the spirit of the letter after the two last p...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

God's Gold

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As promised, I have stepped away from the obtuse academic writing to write a book geared to people "in the real world" who are in...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Fixing Federalism Sidestepped in Opposing E.P.A. Coal Regulations

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In his letter to every state governor in March 2015, Mitch McConnell, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, urged the state officials to ...
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Conflicts of Interest in Europe’s Greek-Austerity Impasse

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At the conclusion of the European Council session in March 2015, all 19 of the state governors in attendance still wanted the state of Gree...
Saturday, March 21, 2015

American Students View College as Job-Training: Forsaking Education?

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“What is your major?” is a mantra (and undoubtedly a pick-up line too) on college campuses. In giving students some exposure to a variety o...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

California’s Elongated Drought: Warming to a Changing Status-Quo

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With the winter of 2014-2015 failing to deliver much of a snowpack to California, Californians entered a fourth year of drought. The measur...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

On the Suitability of Starbucks’ CEO Triggering Conversations on Race

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Should a company’s CEO use the vast tentacles of the local retail stores to prompt public discourse on race in America? Even though improvi...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The Affordable Care Act: Healthcare as a Human Right?

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Did the Americans who were in favor of passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 believe that access to healthcare is a human right? Did t...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

The German Government Refuses to Pay Down Its Debt: How Un-German!

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How should a government spend a budget surplus? In California, the Californian government put some of its surplus in a “rainy-day fund” in ...
Friday, March 13, 2015

Reforming Chinese Courts: A Fool’s Errand?

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With Chinese courts revising more than 1,300 criminal decisions in 2014, the chief justice of the Supreme People’s Court, Zhou Qiang, told ...