Friday, April 13, 2018

How a Chairman of the Federal Reserve Made Strategic Use of the Media

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Just as the US Senate was to take up the matter of Ben Bernanke’s re-appointment as Chair of the Federal Reserve in 2010, Time  magazine ca...

Obama's Meeting with Culpable Top Bankers

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When he was running for US President, Barak Obama said that the financial crisis provided an opportunity for financial system reform beyond...

A Nobel Peace Prize Awarded in spite of a Troop Surge

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In December of 2009, Barak Obama was the first sitting U.S. president in 90 years and the third ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet he d...

Eleven Time Zones in Russia: A Problem of Consolidated Empire

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As of 2011, Russia had 11 time zones, from the Polish border to near Alaska, a system so vast that a traveller could get a walloping case o...

The Federal Reserve Expanded Its Turf in Spite of Having Come Up Short

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Testifying before the US Senate Finance Committee on his re-appointment, Ben Bernanke volunteered that the Fed had been “slow” in protectin...

Human Rights Violations in Syria and Bahrain: On the American Reaction

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The New York Times reported on March 25, 2011 that Syrian military troops opened fire on protesters in the southern part of Syria. Tens o...

On the Police Power of Chinese Banks

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In July, 2010, a few days after the Agricultural Bank in China went public in an IPO bringing in $22 billion, dozens of former bank employe...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Is Greed Implicit in Christian Theology?

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In Business Ethics for Dummies (p. 123), greed is defined as a basic desire for more. The authors posit a “reasonable greed,” which in bus...

An Interfaith Declaration of Business (Ethics)

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Released in 1994, “An Interfaith Declaration: A Code of Ethics on International Business for Christians, Muslims, and Jews” is comprised o...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Christian Films as Distinctly Theological: A Theological Project

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To be profitable, is it advisable that  films with a distinctively religious theme and narrative water down their theological dimension so ...
Monday, March 26, 2018

When an Unethical Corporate Culture Becomes Dangerous in a Primitive U.S. State: Uber’s Self-Driving Cars in Arizona

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A company  with a horrendous reputation for having an unethical, and harsh, company culture is likely to be attracted to places in which la...

Differences between Two Living Popes White-Washed in Fake News

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People in glass houses should not throw stones. Or, the person who is without sin casts the first stone. Lastly, a house divided cannot sta...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Corporate Social Responsibility Is Not Altruistic: The Case of Amazon Prime

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In a doctoral seminar on corporate social responsibility (CSR), the professor turned to me, perhaps because by then I was also taking cours...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Is Scientology a Religion?

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I contend that other domains have encroached on religion, or religion on them, such that the native fauna in religion’s own garden is scarc...

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook’s Unjust Strategic Leader in a Crisis

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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook (and Instagram) “remained silent” during the two days after the data-breach scandal broke in M...