Thursday, August 25, 2016

Global Markets and London Overreact to the British Vote to Secede from the E.U.: Missing the Bright Spots

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The world’s financial sector may be excessively sensitive to increasing uncertainty associated with major changes—that is, changes that imp...

Big Soda Campaigning against a Proposed Tax in San Francisco: A Vested Interest Thwarting Democracy?

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With a proposed 1-cent per ounce tax on sweetened beverages such as soda-pop on the 2016 ballot in Oakland and San Francisco, the effect...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Apollo Global Flew Too Close to the Sun: Personal and Institutional Conflicts of Interest

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I submit that people tend to get more upset over the exploitation of personal conflicts of interest than the institutional sort. That is t...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Homeless “Campers” Starting Wildfires: Outside the Social Contract

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Nederland, Colorado. A town in Boulder County that had embraced marijuana dispensaries for profit, found itself just outside a wildfire ...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Extreme Reckless with National Security: A Rigged Justrice Department or Falling Short of Gross Negligence?

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In July, 2016, the FBI came to the conclusion that while Hillary Clinton was serving as U.S. Secretary of State, she risked classified info...

On the Business Ethics and Technology of Self-Driving Cars at Tesla

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During the summer of 2016, Tesla was under fire with charges regarding the technology and ethics. Both of these issues can be put into a wid...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Christianity as Distinctly Religious: A New Species?

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The human mind naturally tends to make (and remake) religion into familiar terms, while resisting the wholly other as such. As David Hume e...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

From Being “Real” to Mythic: Do Religions have Lifespans?

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Thousands of years ago, Greeks acted out narratives from what we now refer to as myths. The word myth connotes a religious narrative that ...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

SEC Investigating a Hedge-Fund Priest: Christianity’s Pro-Wealth Paradigm Lapsing into Greed?

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It is against U.S. securities law to knowingly make false statements or publish false information about a company you are shorting (selling ...
Thursday, March 10, 2016

Picking a U.S. President: Excessive and Insufficient Democracy

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Even as the Electoral College has never performed as intended, that the delegates at the U.S. federal constitutional convention devised it ...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Adolf Eichmann: Justice or Retribution by the Victims?

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In February, 2016, 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning, a former guard at Auschwitz, went on trial in Detmold, Germany for being an accessory to t...
Monday, January 4, 2016

Increasing Complexity and More Energy in the Context of Evolutionary Biology

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In “the story of increasing complexity and then decreasing complexity,” we find complexity in “privileged localities” where “intense loca...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

On the Key Role of Energy in the Industrial Revolution

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Reading from Peter Stearns' "The Industrial Revolution in World History," I'm intrigued with the twin elements of fossil f...
Friday, January 1, 2016

The Big Short and Concussion: A System on Steroids

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Want a glimpse of the "powers that be," American-style? Three films--"The Big Short," "Concussion," and ...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

On the Financial Crisis of 2008: Why Business Ethics Failed

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I submit that the academic field of business ethics failed in not being able to anticipate the fraud and exploited conflicts of interest th...