Friday, January 26, 2018

Lessons Learned from the Arab Spring

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"When a leader's only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule...

The Banking Lobby Amid Goldman Sachs' Culpability: A Danger to the Republic?

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To simplify how Goldman Sachs got into trouble with the SEC: According to Annie Lowrey, the hedge fund Paulson & Co. handpicked mortgag...

The Increasing Decadence in American Business (and Society): The Case of On-Screen Distractions during Television Programs

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While watching Lord of the Rings on TBS in 2010, I noticed that the network was posting not only its logo on the bottom right of the scree...

The Volcker Rule: Taking in Water on Proprietary Trading

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Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law of 2010, Goldman Sachs had to break up its principal strategies group, the trading unit that had ...

The U.S. Supreme Court as Decider: A Conflict of Interest in Federalism Cases?

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As to whether the supreme courts of particular American states, or republics, should be able to declare the general (U.S.) government’s hea...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Balancing Company Rights and Worker Security through Public Policy

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It would be a cruel joke were an airline to keep the extendable corridor back as the plane’s front door is opened and passengers are pushed...
Monday, January 22, 2018

The Strength of the Euro Bespeaks Normalcy for the E.U.

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As 2018 was beginning its climb in the northern hemisphere toward eventually warmer days, the prospect for the E.U. through and after the s...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Rule of Law in the E.U.: Implications for the Federal System

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For a federal system to be viable over the long term, a core of basic values must be shared even though one of the main functions of federa...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Decoupling Responsibility from Power: The Case of Transocean in the BP Disaster

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With much power comes implicit responsibility. Hence, on February 21, 2011, the world recoiled when Gaddafi violently turned on his own peo...

BP and MMS: A Case of Regulatory Capture

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In the U.S. Constitutional Convention, James Madison in particular stressed the nepharious quality of faction in relation to the public goo...

BP: Dividends to Stockholders Despite a Sordid Safety Record

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As BP was wrestling with stopping the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and cleaning up the oil, a controversy broke out between the company’s...

Are Americans Indifferent to Europe?

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Are Americans indifferent to what is happening in Europe unless there is some direct effect on them? If so, the news media would simply be ...

On U.S.Senators Being Elected

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According to David Firestone of The New York Times, a “surprising number” of the Tea Party members were calling for the repeal of the 17th ...

The BP Oil-Rig Explosion: Did the U.S. Government Over-Reach?

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A month into the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some commentators began to wonder out loud whether the US Government ought to take ove...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Church Scandals in a Secularizing World

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A religious institution can least afford scandal involving highly unethical and illegal activity when the world is secularizing; the headw...