Friday, December 14, 2018

Leading at the Top beyond Appearances: The case of John Boehner, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

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In the wake of President Obama's mission to execute Osama bin Laden, Speaker Boehner issued a statement complimenting his rival in the...

On the Eclipse of Russian Federalism: Implications for the E.U. and U.S.

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Dmitri Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, fired Yuri Luzhkov in September, 2010, after Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow (legally a ...
Thursday, December 13, 2018

Mass Foreclosures as Fallout from Regulatory Capture: Banks in a Conflict of Interest at Treasury

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During the summer of 2010, the Obama administration unveiled a $1 billion program to offer loans to help the jobless pay their mortgages u...

Public Accountants Betraying Clients: Insider-Trading on Client Information

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There are two basic types of conflicts of interest: personal and institutional. In any conflict of interest, two roles conflict in such a...

Auto vs. Oil Industries on Emission Standards: Putting a Part Above the Whole

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When a company or an entire industry skips over the good of the whole—the public good—in lobbying for legislation that only reflects the n...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

The Young Messiah: A Film Rendering Religious Meaning as Distinct

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The 2016 film,  The Young Messiah , admits to being an imagined year in Jesus’s childhood. To be sure, history and even Biblical passages ...

Investor Assessments of Political Events

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Although the various investors in the financial markets doubtlessly pay great attention to important political events, such as were a state...

Mitt Romney’s “About-Face" in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election: A Candidate’s Conflict-of-Interest

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As was demonstrated in September 2008 as banks began to stop lending to each other even overnight, trust is the foundation, or grundlagen ,...

Oceans Arising on Edifices of Arrogance

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A study published in late November 2012 in the journal Science estimates that the melting of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland had...
Thursday, December 6, 2018

Was Goldman Sachs Really Politically Impotent amid Public Scrutiny in the Wake of the Financial Crisis?

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If the American financial houses on Wall Street are among the most powerful forces in American politics-- powers, as it were, behind the th...

Mr. Goldman Goes to Washington

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After watching hours of the US House Government Affairs committee on Investigations’ hearing on Goldman Sachs in 2010,  I concluded--totall...

CEO Compensation: How Much Is Too Much?

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From the previous year, the medium value of salaries, bonuses and long-term-incentive awards for the CEOs of 350 major American companie...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Rosemary's Baby: The Supernatural in Religion

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The film narrative centers on Satan impregnating Rosemary, a married woman in New York City. According to Roman Polanski, the film’s direct...
Monday, December 3, 2018

The Gospel According to Dr. Goebbels

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“What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded relig...
Sunday, December 2, 2018

The Essence of Leadership

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According to DePree (1989, p.19), the first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. This might seem metaphysically esoteric, but I...