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Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Amendment To Exempt Small Firms Passes House Committee

Rolfe Winkler | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: John Adler, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Enron, Regulation, Worldcom, Securities and Exchange Commission, Consumer Protection, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

An amendment that would permanently exempt small public companies from complying with a key provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act advanced in Congress t...

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Shahien Nasiripour

House Panel Votes To Permanently Exempt Small Firms From Part Of Post-Enron Law

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Worldcom, Scott Garrett, Arthur Levitt, Barney Frank, Enron, Obama Administration, Investors, John Adler, Rahm Emanuel, Mary Schapiro, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Financial Crisis, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business News

A House panel voted Wednesday to permanently exempt more than half of all publicly traded companies from a seven-year-old post-Enron measure designed ...

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Shahien Nasiripour

White House Quietly Working To Weaken Investor Protection

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: John Adler, Investor Protection, Worldcom, Financial Reform, Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Financial Crisis, Consumers, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Regulation, Carolyn Maloney, Investors, Business News

The White House is quietly working to undercut a key post-Enron reform, significantly weakening protection for everyday investors and threatening the ...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Another House Democrat Backs Away From Loophole In Investor Protection Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Fraud, Consumer Advocates, House Democrats, Enron, Investor Protection Bill, Iceland, Maloney Investor Protection Bill, Carolyn Maloney, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Business News

A leading House Democrat backed away Wednesday from a sweeping proposal that would have watered down a post-Enron reform, permanently exempting small ...

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Shahien Nasiripour

House Democrats John Adler, Carolyn Maloney Move To Weaken Investor Protection Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: John Adler, Worldcom, Financial Reform, Enron, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Financial Crisis, Consumers, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Regulation, Investors, Carolyn Maloney, Business News

Two House Democrats are planning to introduce amendments Tuesday to exempt small- and medium-sized companies from a key post-Enron reform. Consumer ad...

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Supreme Court Will Hear Jeff Skilling's Appeal

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court Cases, Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Enron CEO, Jeff Skilling, Jeff Skilling Supreme Court, Enron, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's appeal of his convictions for his role in the colla...

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Jeff Skilling Appeal: Former Enron CEO Will Get Supreme Court Hearing

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Skilling Enron Collapse, Enron Skilling Appeal, Skilling Appeal, Enron Appeal, Supreme Court Skilling Appeal, Jeff Skilling, Supreme Court, Enron, Jeff Skilling Enron, Jeff Skilling Insider Trading, Jeff Skilling Conspiracy, Supreme Court Enron, Jeff Skilling Fraud, Business News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling's appeal of his convictions for his role in the colla...

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, Bill Clinton and That Crazy California Governorship

William Bradley | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Emerson, Bill Clinton, Steve Westly, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Tom Campbell, Antonio Villaraigosa, Pat Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, California, Meg Whitman, 1992 Presidential Race, Gavin Newsom, Warren Beatty, Jerry Brown, Steve Poizner, 2010 Gubernatorial Race, Hillary Clinton, Tom McClintock, Bill Lockyer, Tonight Show, Biltmore Hotel, Century Plaza Hotel, Don Sipple, 2003 California Recall, Dot-Com Boom, Field Poll, John Garamendi, Enron, Pete Wilson, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Politics News
William Bradley

California's next governor is likely someone who's already won a landslide election as governor, albeit 30 years ago. That's Jerry Brown, who won his latest landslide for Attorney General in 2006.

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To "Americans for Prosperity" Capitalism Is a Love Story

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Phillips, C-Span, David Koch, President Obama, It's a Wonderful Life, Ann Coulter, Enron, Frank Capra, Koch Industries, Newt Gingrich, Capitalism, Tsa, Savings and Loan Scandal, The 2016 Olympic Games, Henry Clay Frick, Cnbc, Tyco, Free Market Fundamentalism, Americans for Prosperity, Laura Ingraham, Worldcom, Afp, Larry Kudlow, Supply-Side Economics, Knights of Labor, National Defending the American Dream Summit, Megan McCain, Long-Term Capital Management, John Birch Society, Pinkertons, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.

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Sorkin On What Happened After Lehman

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Enron, Geithner, Business, Wachovia, Great Panic of 2008, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Media Maneuvers, Investment Bank, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Robert Teitelman, Ben Bernanke, Tarp, Timothy, Business News
Robert Teitelman

New York Times' reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin's excerpt microscopically examines the actions of some key regulatory and Wall Street players, in this case during the period immediately after Lehman failed.

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Scott O'Malia: Obama Appoints Ex-Lobbyist For Enron-Like Company To Top Regulator Position

Mother Jones | David Corn and Daniel Schulman | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Public Utilities Commision, Mirant, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Maria Cantwell, Lobbyists, George W. Bush, President Obama, Enron, Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee, Scott O'malia, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Politics News

During his confirmation hearing last year, Scott O'Malia, a Republican Senate aide nominated to be a commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Com...

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Practical Economics 101

Jim Selman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: The Beatles, Freshwater Economists, Economics, Enron, New York Times, Bill Gates, Worldview, Technocrat, Saltwater Economists, Bernie Madoff, Arthur Anderson, paul_krugman, Neo-Keynesian, Living News
Jim Selman

Can any of us afford the arrogance to operate as if our point of view is the truth?

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Dissent Commodified

Thomas Frank | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enron, Woodstock, Baby Boomers, General Motors, Chrysler, Politics News
Thomas Frank

As we remember those poignant early days when Boomers took on the establishment, let us also remember that any establishment is lucky to have an opposition like this one.

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More Pigs at the Trough: What Enron and WorldCom Can Teach Us About Goldman and AIG

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Ken Lay, Joseph Cassano, Pigs at the Trough, Worldcom, Tyco, Enron, Financial Crisis, John Rigas, Bernard Ebbers, Business News
Arianna Huffington

In 2003, when I wrote Pigs at the Trough, America's corporate crooks were largely playing with shareholders' money. The new batch of Pigs I cover in the just-released updated version is playing with taxpayer money -- trillions of it.

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The Republicans Win Big in California!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Economic Crisis, California, Senator Darrell Steinberg, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Enron, Tea Baggers, California Republicans, Santa Barbara Oil Drilling, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Budget Deal, Duke Energy, Grover Norquist, California Budget Crisis, Republican Party, Howard Jarvis, Budget Standoff, Reliant, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Schwarzenegger and his horde of retrograde Republican lawmakers got everything they wanted in a horrific bargain with Democratic leaders that has ended California's budget impasse.

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Honesty in Business

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 08.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Worldcom, Legal System, Arthur Andersen, Honesty, Justice, Enron, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

No doubt the moral philosophers would criticize me for not appreciating honesty for honesty's sake, but the fact is that companies can do well by doing good.

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Are You Wasting Your Time On Values Statements?

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 08.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Suppliers, Respect Fo Rpeople, Strategy, Employees, Return for Shareholders, Inspirational, Johnson & Johnson, Values, Enron, Customer Satisfaction, Innovation, Integrity, Quality, Business News
Marshall Goldsmith

Companies have wasted millions of dollars and countless hours of employees' time agonizing over the wording of statements that are inscribed on plaques and hung on walls. But this obsession with words belies one very large problem: There is almost no correlation between the words on the wall and the behavior of leaders.

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SEC Pushed To Reward Whistleblowers With Cash

ft.com | Joanna Chung in New York | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Whistleblowers, Sec, Cash for Whistleblowers, Madoff, Enron, Business News

Regulators should pay whistleblowers for information about frauds, according to an official investigating the US Securities and Exchange Commission's ...

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On the Matter of the M.B.A. Oath

Robert Teitelman | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: College Students, M.B.A., Jack Welch, Financial TImes, Enron, Ethics, Michael Skapinker, Harvard Business School, Securities and Exchange Commission, Capitalism, Journalism, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The real-life goal of management is to create wealth. The only MBA oath that makes sense should resemble that of doctors: do no harm.

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California's Death Throes: A View From Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budget Crisis, California, Dennis Hollingsworth, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Enron, Kenny Boy Lay, California Democratic Party, Gray Davis, Edmund Brown, California Democratic Clubs, Nancy Pelosi, The Terminator, Commonsense4CA.Org, California Governor Arnold Schwarznegger, California Budget Crisis, California Fiscal Crisis, Budget Cuts, Darrell Steinberg, State Legislature, Calpirs, Calworks, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

A grassroots movement working within Democratic Party structures might break the cycle of abuse the Republican minority has inflicted upon the state.

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The Case of the Missing Stock Data

Michael Martin | Posted 07.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Subprime Mortgages, Lehman Brothers, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Enron, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Warren Buffett, Aig, Bernard Madoff, Bear Stearns, Business News
Michael Martin

With the demolition of Wall Street firms, something important is disappearing too: their share price data from the stock exchanges.

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California Needs a New Constitution

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Enron, "Kenny Boy" Lay, California Constitutional Convention, Fiscal Crisis, Santa Clara County, California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, Karen Bass, California-Constitution, Governor Edmund "Pat" Brown, California State Government, Paul Krugman, California State Leaders, California Budget Cuts, California Fiscal Crisis, Sacramento, California Budget Crisis, State Capitol, California Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, Darrell Steinberg, Silicon Valley, California, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

If Arnold and the Democrats can waste state money holding failed ballot initiatives and "special elections" they can set aside a little cash for a Constitutional Convention.

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How the Enron Disaster Could Have Been Avoided

Ryan Mack | Posted 06.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Enron, Investments, Asset-Allocation, Stocks, Asset Allocation, Stock Market, Diversity, Retirement, Business News
Ryan Mack

Employees are now burdened with the responsibility of planning for their own retirement since defined contribution plans became the norm.

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Today's Speech for Tomorrow's Managers

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 06.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Commencement Speeches, Graduation Speeches, Enron, Banking Crisis, China Earthquake, China, Management, China Tainted Milk, Business News
Philip N. Cohen

We may use market forces for what they are good for -- setting prices - without being used by them for what they are bad for -- greed and corruption.

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Brazil's Earth Day Present: A Sustainable Energy Policy

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Americas Summit, Biofuels, Brazil, Enron, Renewable Energy, Lula, Fiat, Vw, Carlos Ghosn, Obama, K Street Lobbyists, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, Orange Line, Cta Chicago, Citroen, Tata Nano, Carbon Fooprint, New York Mta, Curitiba, Ratan Tata, Ethanol, Beltway Bandits, Davidow, Solar Power, Nissan Renault, 2-Cv, Earth Day, SãO Paulo-Brazil, Green News
Eric Ehrmann

Brazil's sustainable energy dividend is the result of generations of trust and cooperation between a strong federal government, parastatal companies and global businesses who have developed the knack of working with them.

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