Saturday, October 7, 2017

Earmarks and Congressional Campaign Fundraising: A Structural Conflict of Interest

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In 2009, Congress appropriated $16 billion in earmarks. In March of the following year, the U.S. House of Representatives eliminated earmar...

Investment Bank Dinners with Corporate Executives and Hedge Fund Managers: The General Public Not Admitted

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“One day in early March [2011], the phone lines of hedge-fund traders around London and New York suddenly lit up. A stock that many of them...

Leadership by Elected Representatives: Transcending the Politics of Slashing Vulnerable Federal Programs and Avoiding Tax Increases

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On January 20, 2011, months before the Republicans would use leverage of a baleful debt-ceiling-default to extract additional cuts, the Rep...

On the Obama Administration's Inconsistency on Syria and Libya

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In his foreign policy speech on May 19, 2011, U.S. President Barak Obama attempted to justify his administration’s policy of selective mil...

E Pluribus Unum (One out of Many): Unity without Uniformity

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On January 12, 2011, President Obama spoke at the memorial service for the fallen victims of the assassination attempt on Rep. Giffords. “W...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Nature’s Caste System: Character-Based Clusters

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Pushing good characters down for no good reason in a sort of “collective judgment” that applies to an entire group of people—as in the case...

Capitalism & Caste: Melting Untouchability in India

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In what has become known as India, the caste system of Hinduism has for millennia served as the template for the socio-economic ordering of...

Vertical and Horizontal M&A: A Bias in Antitrust Policy?

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T he Obama Justice Department developed a track record in challenging horizontal mergers and acquisitions—those in which a company buys a d...

The U.S. House of Representatives: An Aristocratic or People’s House?

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“ Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House rose by more than 2 1 / 2 times, according to the analysis of financ...

Anti-Corruption and Federalism in India

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At the end of 2011, India’s coalition government adjourned the upper chamber of the federal legislature without passing legislation that wo...

Leadership Consulting: Stances on Scholarship

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As the field of leadership consulting continues to proliferate, fringe-elements have developed that risk taking down the credibility of th...

Did Obama Press Israel to Compromise for Peace?

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Seeing to “capture a moment of epochal change in the Arab world,” U.S. President Obama delivered a foreign policy speech on May 19, 2011 i...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

Contradictory Comments on Health Insurance as Unethical: The Case of Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich said on May 15, 2011 that people should be required to buy health-insurance. He added that he would like to see the mandate ...

Too Big to Fail: The Trillion Dollar Club

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Banks with assets over $50 billion are considered “systemically important” according to the Dodd-Frank law of 2010. The act is geared to s...

Lehman's Dick Fuld as the Antagonist in the film, "Too Big to Fail"

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The reporter-author of Too Big to Fail , Andrew Ross Sorkin, expressed the following fear as his 600-plus-page book was being made into a m...