Monday, December 9, 2019

Oligarchs in Ukraine Decide the E.U./Russia Question: Big Business on Top of Democracy?

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One of the many lessons shimmering in the sunlight from stars such as Gandhi and Mandela is the possibility that popular political protes...

Two Sizes Fit All: America’s Two-Party-System Stranglehold

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A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted in early August 2011 found that “just 17% of likely U.S. voters think that the federal government . . . ...

President Obama and Goldman Sachs: A Quid Pro Quo?

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U.S. President Obama nominated Timothy Geithner to be Secretary of the Treasury. While president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, he...

Congress: Hitched to the Status Quo

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To lead is to be out in front, pointing the jet’s nose one way rather than another. Leadership is not that which causes drag at the back of...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

American religion and politics: Overreaching Realms

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Even though they are formally separated in the U.S. under the constitutional rubric that the federal government cannot lawfully establish a...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Managing Externalities in Business: Heliogen’s Breakthrough in Combatting Climate Change

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A company’s values and norms can resonate to some extent with their societal counterparts by the company providing goods and services of v...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Will Breakthroughs Save the Planet?

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The dire predictions concerning the probable impact of climate change on ecosystems, ocean-levels, and food-production, as well as on our...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Bolivia's President Morales: A De-Facto Dictator Undemocratically Removed from Office

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Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, resigned on November 10, 2019 after an audit by the Organization of American States found that the resul...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Financial Scandal in the Vatican: A Historical Perspective on Christian Economic Ethics

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In the history of Christian economic thought, theologians, with the exception of Clement of Alexandria, interpreted the biblical story of ...
Monday, November 11, 2019

Perception-Based Healthy Reputational Capital as a Strategic Competitive Advantage: The Case of CVS Health

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In 2014, CVS drug-stores stopped selling tobacco products. The strategic choice rendered CVS Health more internally consistent on wellness...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

China's Population: Demographic Imbalances and the Climate Emergency

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In his treatise on  Understanding , David Hume posits that we don’t know as much about causation as we think we do. Often times, positive c...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Democracy Held Hostage: The Case of a Street Name

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Claims of systemic racism can also be attacks on democracy itself. In fact, if overdone, such claims may themselves be racist. The situa...
Monday, November 4, 2019

Goldman Sachs' Revolving Door: Regulatory Capture

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In July 2012, Andrew Williams, a former spokesman for U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, announced plans to head over to Goldman Sa...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Do You Believe in Global Warming?

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On September 16, 2012, “Arctic ice covered just 1.32 million square miles—the lowest extent ever recorded. ‘The loss of summer sea ice has ...

Members of Congress Secretly Lobbied the Fed

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As of late September 2012, more than one hundred members of Congress had lobbied the Federal Reserve and other regulatory agencies on the V...