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Friday, August 7, 2009

Corporate Behavior in the Face of Reform

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has been aggressively peddling the Obama Administration’s plan to reform the financial industry in rec...
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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Enron’s Aftermath: This Is Not Just Business News

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In this economic downturn, Americans are clear that the business community has a huge impact on the welfare of the entire nation. In part...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

What Role for Institutional Investors?

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In my first post on this site, I mentioned that I had planned to write about institutional shareholder roles in corporate governance post-fi...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The World Bank and IMF Forgave Ayiti's Billion Dollar Debt as Ayiti Struggles to Reform Public Programs and Policies

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A few weeks ago the boards of the World Bank and IMF decided to approve Ayiti’s (Haiti)$1.2 billion debt relief under the enhanced HIPC ...
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Call for Papers - The Fall of the Economy and How New York City Can Rise to the Challenge

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On Friday March 5, 2010, the St. John’s Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development will host a symposium on the recent economic dow...

The Wages of Sin: Ruth Madoff and Bernie's Money Trail

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Last week I posted a piece on the Corporate Justice Blog about affinity fraud and the Bernie Madoff scandal. Well, the drama surrounding...
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Beware the Zombie Banks!

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Zombie banks seem to be killing our economy, just as financier George Soros predicted . Zombie banks do not lend money because they ar...
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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Goldman and AIG: Two Strategies, Two Very Different Outcomes

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Goldman Sachs (“Goldman”) continues to be a major player in the derivatives market. Unlike AIG, Goldman’s derivative strategy is much mor...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

whither executive compensation?

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Bank Bonus Tab: $33 Billion Nine Lenders That Got U.S. Aid Paid at Least $1 Million Each to 5,000 Employees Splashed across the the Wall Str...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009

The New CEO of Xerox: When it Comes to Employment Discrimination, African American Executives May Not Make a Difference

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For the first time in American history an African American woman became CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Ursula Burns took over Xerox on Jul...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Consumer Financial Protection, Understandable Disclosure and Financial Education

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Congress has developed a 10-member commission to determine the causes of the financial crisis . The commission will be chaired by former Cal...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

PRUDENTIAL BANK DIVESTITURES

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One of the key failures of the too-big-to-fail approach to systemic financial insolvency is its failure to stem economic catastrophe to ...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

What is "Corporate Justice?"

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In preparing my first blog post, I began to ponder the meaning of the words “corporate justice.” Immediately, I was reminded of Plato’s bo...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

AFFINITY FRAUD: INVESTOR BEWARE!!!

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Affinity Fraud: A Major Problem that the General Public Knows Little About With the large downtick in the economy, there has been a noticeab...
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Friday, July 24, 2009

Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act

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At President Obama's request, Congress recently passed legislation to protect consumers from rapacious credit card companies practices...
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