Thursday, March 9, 2017

The E.U.’s Central Bank: Beholden to State-Level Politics

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Faced with the rise of anti-euro candidates for state offices throughout the E.U., Mario Draghi, the president of the E.U.’s central bank d...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Disentangling a Worsening Trade Deficit: Sector-Specific Industrial and Macro Economic Policy

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The U.S. trade deficit rose 9.6% in January, 2017, to the highest level since 2012. The gap of $48.5 billion of exports exceeding import...
Monday, March 6, 2017

Federalizing State Warheads in the E.U.: The Problem of Excessive State Power in a Federal System

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Only months after Donald Trump became the federal president in the U.S., an idea, “once unthinkable,” was “gaining attention in European po...
Friday, March 3, 2017

Uber Tricking Law Enforcement: An Unethical Corporate Culture Externalized

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A company with a culture in which in-fighting and heavy-handed treatment of subordinates are not only tolerated, but also constitute the n...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

On the Vatican’s Conflict of Interest Regarding Accountability on Sex-Abuse

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Integrity is arguably essential to the credibility of religious functionaries—even and especially those with considerable organizational...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Biblically-Based Investment Funds: A Matter of Priorities

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Is it biblical to say a Christian can serve both God and money? In the Gospels, Jesus speaks to this point directly; it is not possible. In...

China and Russia Protect Syria’s Assad on Chemical Weapons: A Matter of Priorities

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All bets are off when it comes to regulating war. Such a condition is virtually by definition beyond the confines of law. Even internati...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Virtual Reality: Not Coming to a Theatre Near You

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Virtual reality may be coming your way, and when it hits, it could hit big—as if all at once. The explosion of computers and cell phones ...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Should Same-Party-Affiliation Exclude Investigations on an Elected Official’s Misconduct?

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A survey taken in February, 2017 of 1,571 political scientists on democracy in America reveals a possible problem regarding the extent to w...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

How to Cure a Dysfunctional Company Culture: The Case of Uber

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Valued at close to $70 billion and operating in more than 70 countries, Uber was giving traditional taxi companies a ride for their money i...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Holding Back the E.U.: What Is It?

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In addressing the E.U. Parliament in February, 2017, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Tradeau, claimed that the E.U. “is a truly remarkable ...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

On the Value of Business-Societal Linkages: Facebook’s Zuckerberg Opposing President Trump?

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In a public letter in February, 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, linked his company’s product, the online social network...

Kierkegaard’s Socratic Task: Delivering a Christianity of Inward Faith

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Kierkegaard learned from Socrates the value of (being) the single individual, especially in the subjective pursuit of truth. Before Socrate...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

One-Party Rule at the State Level: Federalism at Work

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With Congressional Republicans appearing “flummoxed by the complexities of one-party rule, struggling with issues from repealing the Afford...

The Founder

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Tension between the founder of a business and the managers that eventually assume control is perhaps unavoidable. Such tension can be cut ...