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Maureen Dowd - Virtuous Bankers? Really!?! - NYTimes.com
Maureen Dowd takes on Goldman Sachs's CEO's absurd claim that he is doing "God's work."
Toxic Waters - Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering - Series - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributors - The Economy Is Still at the Brink - NYTimes.com
Some sensible ideas to reform and re-regulate the financial industry and the stock market.
Obamanomics - Capitalism After the Fall - NYTimes.com
Reports on Obama's ideas for reforming the American economy once recovery is in place: Decreasing consumerism, encouraging saving and investment, and correcting the systemic flaws that redistribute income disproportionately to the very wealthy and away from the working people who produce the wealth.
Paul Krugman - Making Banking Boring - NYTimes.com
Krugman argues that we need to "make banking boring again" by reining in its dangerous practices and wildly out-of-control salaries.
Editorial - Predatory Brokers - NYTimes.com
How dishonest real estate brokers helped steer house buyers into loans they could not afford. A classic example of why regulation is needed. Also rebuts libertarians' insistence that "the market" will teach people how to behave: perhaps it will, but until it does, the cost in preventable human suffering is unacceptable.
We’re Not the Boss of A.I.G. - NYTimes.com
How corporate law and regulation are set up to allow top management and boards to ignore or thwart the wishes of shareholders.
When Humans Need a Nudge Toward Rationality
Discusses the fact that people often act against their best interests, and that corporations and other organizations have become expert in manipulating them.
Exposed to Solvent, Worker Faces Hurdles - NYTimes.com
The difficulty of proving that a particular workplace exposure to toxic chemicals caused a worker's illness means that corporations can escape any penalty for harming their workers. It's another example of why pre-emptive regulation of dangerous workplace
Can Businesses Do Well and Do Good? - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com
Social responsibilities of business discussed by Ed Glaeser (Harvard economist and author of some journal articles that I respect).
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