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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 minutes
Il faut apprendre avec soin

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 minutes
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 minutes
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 novembre 2011
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10 minutes
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 minutes
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 octobre 2011
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David Burge
6 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes
Steve Jobs contre les anticapitalistes

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 minutes
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 minutes
Arrachez-leur les poumons !

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 minutes
Un jury vicié

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 minutes
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 minutes
L'arbre qui prend (vidéo)

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
Le 11 septembre, une décennie plus tard

La première décennie du XXIe siècle a été marquée par les islamistes, qui ont utilisé des avions comme armes pour attaquer le World Trade Center et l'aéroport de New York.

11 septembre 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 minutes
Altruisme et capitalisme

Le système capitaliste s'est mis en place au cours du siècle qui va de 1750 à 1850, à la suite de trois révoltes. La première était une révolte....

31 août 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
12 minutes
Pas d'espoir

Je dois nettoyer la cave ... changer l'essence de la voiture ... payer ma carte Visa ... Je dois faire une présentation à la réunion de

31 août 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 minutes
L'appel à la civilisation

30 août 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
Ne pas se battre contre ces moulins à vent

Ce week-end, l'environnement - l'ouragan Irène, plus précisément - m'a privé d'électricité. À partir de samedi soir, j'ai eu, dans mon appartement

30 août 2011
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2 minutes

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