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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 Mins
Tem de ser Cuidadosamente Ensinado

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 Mins
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 Mins
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.

Nov 11, 2011
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10 Mins
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 Mins
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 de Outubro, 2011
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David Burge
6 Mins
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 Mins
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 Mins
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 Mins
Steve Jobs vs. os Anti-Capitalistas

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 Mins
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 Mins
Arranquem-lhes os pulmões!

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 Mins
A Vitiated Jury

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 Mins
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 Mins
A Árvore da Tomada (vídeo)

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 Min
11 de Setembro uma Década Mais Tarde

A primeira década do século XXI foi definida pelos islamistas, que utilizavam aviões como armas contra o World Trade Center e

11 de Setembro, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
Altruísmo e Capitalismo

O sistema capitalista inicia-se no siglo que va de 1750 a 1850, como resultado de três revoluciones. La primera fue una revolución....

31 de Agosto, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
12 Mins
Não Tengo Que

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

31 de Agosto, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 Mins
El Asalto a la Civilización

30 de Agosto, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
Não se incline nestes moinhos de vento

Este fim-de-semana, o ambiente - o furacão Irene, para ser específico - afastou a minha energia eléctrica. A partir de sábado à noite, eu tinha, no meu apartamento

30 de Agosto, 2011
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2 Mins

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