Friday, November 9, 2018

The American Media Went “Nuclear” on the U.S. Senate's Filibuster: A Case of Hyperactive Marketing?

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Is ending the filibuster on appointments to executive-branch offices as well as judicial appointments below the U.S. Supreme Court really...

On the Nature of Principled Leadership

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What is principled leadership? Simply whatever a leader decides? Or even worse, believes? If so, does the content shift with the sands fr...

Unnecessary Systemic Risk: Banks' Price-Fixing and Racketeering in Side Businesses

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A lawsuit filed in a Florida district-court in 2013 alleged that JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and the London Metal Exchange (LME) artificially ...

Non-Positional Leadership: A Matter of Charisma?

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The concept of non-positional leadership is typically associated with charismatic leadership . [1] The Hebrew prophets are a case in point...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Does Refusing Rolling Stone Magazine's Use of a Criminal's Picture For Marketing Purposes Violate Corporate Social Responsibility?

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In 2013, the editors at Rolling Stone must have been kicking themselves after several retail chains announced that they would not be selli...
Sunday, November 4, 2018

Transcending Limited Notions of the Divine

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When religion meets human nature, does the gravitational pull of me, me, me tend to encompass the journey downward in an all too comfortabl...

Handouts in Averting the Fiscal Cliff: The Price of Politics?

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What is that nebulous thing called politics? Might it be that the practice is essentially exploiting or creating what are known as princi...

Keeping the Palestinian Authority Down at the United Nations

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In “defiance of retaliation threatened” by the United States and the state of Israel, the Palestinian Authority announced in November 2...

The “Fiscal Cliff” in U.S.: Real or Hyped?

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As the U.S. economy slogged through a recession following the credit crisis in 2008 and the E.U. was weighed down by the ballast of auste...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Debt-Ceiling vs. the Fiscal Cliff as Negotiating Leverage

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It is likely a drawback of democracy that hard decisions—that is, those in which fixing the problem goes against instant gratification...

The Underbelly of Corporate Charity as Corporate Social Responsibility

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Why do corporate managements spend corporate money on charities? The obvious reason is to reduce the amount of corporate income tax due. ...

A Weak Economy as a Competitive Advantage to the Largest Corporations

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Size matters, at least in the business world. Richard Fuld, the last CEO and Chairman of Lehman Brothers, overextended "his" ba...

Is Corporate Governance Anti-Democratic?

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Assuming all the votes cast in an election are accurately tallied, the pronouncement of the winner would seem to be straight-forward. Wha...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Canada Takes On the United States: A Case of Two Empires?

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Two centuries after the War of 1812, the Canadian government sought to commemorate the “fact” that Canada had thwarted the invasion of tr...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi: A Double-Agent Killed in Istanbul by Saudi Operatives

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The New York Times labeled Jamal Khashoggi “a journalist critical of the Saudi government.” [1]  His day job was being a contributing column...