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The Morality of Insider Trading

In the decades since the SEC decided that trading in your company’s stock could be a form of “fraud” if you were guided by first-hand knowle

Dec 6, 2011
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10 Min.
Sie müssen sorgfältig unterrichtet werden

Everyone who has seen South Pacific will remember Oscar Hammerstein II’s lyrics about the prejudice that Lieutenant Cable knows will keep hi

Dec 5, 2011
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3 Min.
Filmmakers Imagine Finance

Margin Call is the best film to come out of the recent financial crisis. This is no polemic masquerading as a “documentary” (Inside Job) or

Nov 14, 2011
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Larry E. Ribstein
4 Min.
Losing While Winning

Newsflash: it’s a competitive world out there! Some of us are winning and some are losing. It’s the game of live-and-let-live together.

11. November 2011
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10 Min.
Why Care About Rajat Gupta?

Gupta is being prosecuted for his alleged conduct during the period when Goldman Sachs, of whose board he was a member, received a massive..

Nov 7, 2011
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3 Min.
How to Feed Your Family on $10 Billion a Day

Fall 2011 issue -- Seems like these days I hear a lot of whiney whiners whining about “out of control government spending” and “insane

26. Oktober 2011
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David Burge
6 Min.
Greg Reyes: Justice Denied

On October 13, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to throw out the fraud conviction of Greg Reyes that had emerged from the...

Oct 21, 2011
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6 Min.
An Unjustified Sentence

One hundred, thirty-two months in which Raj Rajaratnam, a man capable of making millions through his ability to find out or figure out the..

Oct 13, 2011
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4 Min.
Defiant Defendants and Corrupting Incentives

I’d like to present some excerpts from a prosecution brief in the sentencing of Raj Rajaratnam. Lawyers for Rajaratnam, who is to be.....

Oct 12, 2011
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3 Min.
Steve Jobs vs. die Antikapitalisten

I hope I’m only one of many to see the irony. On the day that Steve Jobs, one of the most innovative entrepreneurs in our history, died...

Oct 6, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Min.
Undermining the Attorney-Client Privilege

Should a lawyer be able to represent both a corporation and its employees? If a corporation’s executives and other employees can’t trust the

Oct 5, 2011
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3 Min.
Reißt ihnen die Lunge raus!

This one will take your breath away and, when you recover, teach you a life-saving philosophy lesson. The Obama administration’s Food and...

Sep 30, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Min.
Ein fehlerhaftes Gericht

For years, your life has been crashing around you. You were a corporate president; now, you are a criminal defendant. The jury has reached..

Sep 29, 2011
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3 Min.
Angry Customers Should Reevaluate Netflix's Changes

I hear customers are angry at Netflix over its recent changes. It’s worth taking a moment to ask: Why would anyone be angry...

Sep 22, 2011
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4 Min.
Der Nehmende Baum (Video)

September 13, 2011 -- What if our economy was a tree from which politicians could just take and take and take? When would they stop? Would

Sep 14, 2011
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Michael Ozias
1 Minute
9/11 ein Jahrzehnt später

Das erste Jahrzehnt des einundzwanzigsten Jahrhunderts wurde von Islamisten bestimmt, die Flugzeuge als Waffen gegen das World Trade Center und die

11. September 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Min.
Altruismus und Kapitalismus

Das kapitalistische System entstand in der Zeit von 1750 bis 1850, als Ergebnis von drei Revolutionen. La primera fue una revolución....

31. August 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
12 Minuten
No Tengo Que

Tengo que sacar la basura ... cambiar el aceite del carro ... pagar mi tarjeta Visa ... Tengo que hacer una presentación en la reunión de

31. August 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 Min.
El Asalto a la Civilización

Aug 30, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
Kämpfen Sie nicht gegen diese Windmühlen

An diesem Wochenende hat die Umwelt - genauer gesagt der Wirbelsturm Irene - mir den Strom weggenommen. Von Samstagabend an hatte ich in meiner Wohnung

Aug 30, 2011
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2 Min.

Wir fördern den offenen Objektivismus: die Philosophie der Vernunft, der Leistung, des Individualismus und der Freiheit.