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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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Realities of the Economic Crisis

Michael de Portu | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Swaps, Derivative Guarantees, Sheldon Filger, Goldman Sachs, Economy, Enron, Nouriel Roubini, Financial Crisis, Fannie and Freddie, Bernie Madoff, Subprime Mortgage, Merill Lynch, Recession, Financial Fraud, Mortgage Crisis, Business News
Michael de Portu

Financial fraud typically takes a long time to detect and yet, paradoxically, the tell-tale signs are (almost) always in plain sight.

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Tax Day: A Great Day to Cheat

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 05.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Taxes, April 15 Tax Day, Kpmg, Rush, Tax, Maddow, Tax Day, Enron, Cheating, Tax Evasion, Book, Monty Python, Comedy News
Jeff Kreisler

Today is tax day, but, as Leona Helmsley wisely noted, "Only the little people pay taxes."

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Endgame for Gramm?

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Robert Scheer, Ubs, Phil Gramm, Wendy Gramm, Treasury, Enron, Justice Department, Tax Evasion, John McCain, Business News
Robert Scheer

The "nation of whiners" comment during the campaign was a sideshow compared with the serious charges now swirling around UBS, charges that may finally prove to be Phil Gramm's undoing.

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Agreements

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Media, Business, L.A., La, Young Audiences, Ratings Numbers, TV Rating, Youth, Enron, Pbs, Wtf, Los Angeles, Tv-Ratings, Media News
Earl Pomerantz

TV ratings don't accurately measure the size the audience. It doesn't matter.

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Yelling From the Back Step

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Savings and Loan Industry, Merrill Lynch, AIG Bonus, Fdic, Chrysler, Blackwater, Chocolate, Economy, Enron, Toxic Assets, Aig, Aiu, Economic Recovery, Economic Stimulus, Socialism, Edward Liddy, Altria Group, Business News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

"Toxic assets" are two words that don't belong together in the English language. The meaning of one cancels out the meaning of the other.

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Defining Extravagance Up

Jamie Malanowski | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Worldcom, Aig, Tyco, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Bonuses, Enron, Economy, Aig Bonuses, Bank Bonuses, Recession, Federal Bailouts, Bailout Bandits, Financial Crisis, Aig Federal Bailouts, Wall Street Bonuses, AIG Scandal, Politics News
Jamie Malanowski

It's admirable that our leaders now want to be frugal with our money but let's remember what the taxpayers themselves have been buying with money not rendered unto Uncle Sam.

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Wealth Without Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, Wall Street Bailout, Main Street and Wall Street, Cnbc, Too Big to Fail, Enron, Main Street, Don McNay, Insurance Companies, Cirtigroup, Small Business Administration, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Wall Street, Charlie Gasparino, Citigroup Bailout, Deregulation, Banks, Kentucky, CEO Compensation, Entrepreneurship, Bonuses, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Bonuses, Personal Finance, Soviet Union, Citigroup, Oregon, Business News
Don McNay

There has been a long and irreversible trend toward small, entrepreneurial businesses, located far from money centers. Instead, Washington keeps throwing money at these "too big to fail" money losers.

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Welcome to our ENRON-omy and the Year of the Probe

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 03.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, John Thain, Dow Jones, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich, Enron, Fda, Wall Street Journal, Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Recall, Economy, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Robyn O'Brien

While we read about Blagojevich's hairbrush and the $1,400 trashcan purchased by Merrill Lynch's CEO, the Dow saw "its worst performance ever" posting its worst January in its 113 year history.

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Legislation Won't Prevent The Next Madoff: SEC Needs Talent, Technology & Collaboration (Not New Laws)

Marc Morgenstern | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Enron, Bernard Madoff, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bernie Madoff, Economic Reform, Politics, Regulations, Rules, Economy, Business, Business News
Marc Morgenstern

Despite political pressure, investor protection cannot come at the cost of impeding needed capital formation.

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Madoff Just the Start of Post-Bubble Scandals

Diane Francis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Sonja Kohn, Economic Bubble, Bernard Madoff Scandal, Bernie Ebbers, Robert Maxwell, Societe Generale, Enron, Economy, Ken Lay, Ponzi Scheme, Bank Medici, Scams, Bernie Madoff, Rene-Thierry Magon De La Villehuchet, Conrad Black, Wall Street, White Collar Crime, Hedge Funds, Worldcom, Banking, Financial Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Investment Banking, Business News
Diane Francis

The $50-billion fraud, allegedly perpetrated by New York's Bernie Madoff, is a predictable outcome following the collapse of a speculative bubble. Big bubbles attract bigger crooks.

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The Big Lie Exposed: Wall Street as Institutionalized Fraud

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Merrrill Lynch, Tyco, Mutual Funds, Wall Street, Madoff, Economy, Enron, Scandals, Drexel, Business News
Jeff Schweitzer

While investors express dismay and shock about Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme, nothing about the affair is even slightly surprising. The s...

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Tools

Norman Horowitz | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Greed, Law Enforcement, Worldcom, S&L, Epa, Enron, Obama Administration, Republican Conservatives, Jaywalking, Fda, Bernie Madoff, Tools, Security and Exchange Commission, Political Corruption, Financial Crisis, Economic Corruption, Politics News
Norman Horowitz

Society does not work when it takes for granted the system's corruptibility. Make laws to protect society and expect them to be enforced.

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Cheney's Legacy of Deception

Robert Scheer | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Robert Scheer, Interrogation, Iraq War, Terrorism, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo, Enron, Pornography of Power, Global War on Terror, Torture, Politics News
Robert Scheer

In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation of honest accounting.

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Algergone

Bob Franken | Posted 01.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Economy, Corruption, Automaker Bailout, Big Three Automakers, Madoff, Economic Crisis, Enron, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Politics News
Bob Franken

If only Horatio Alger had been around today instead of the 19th century, so he could write new stories about how hard work is all it takes to make your fortune. He would have so much material.

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Bush: On the Line

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, George Bush, Bill of Rights, Bush Administration Torture, Bush Administration, Freddie Mac, Department of Defense, Wall Street, George W. Bush, Enron, Auto Industry, Fannie May, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

President Bush and his henchmen are working overtime to ensure that the full extent of damage inflicted upon detainees never sees the light of day.

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Bernie Madoff's Scam "Larger Than Enron"

Clusterstock | John Carney | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Enron, Bernie Madoff Scam, Bernie Madoff, Bernard Madoff, Ponzi Scheme, Madoff Scam, Business News

The world is still stunned by the brazen scam run by Bernie Madoff. Although there's some gallows humor about the debacle--mostly along the lines of "...

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A Dick Cheney Christmas Carol

Stu Kreisman | Posted 01.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Politics, Holiday Season, Ronald Reagan, Political Humor, George W. Bush, Christmas, Enron, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney, Robert Novak, Charles Dickens, Vice President, Patrick Fitzgerald, Valerie Plame, Ken Lay, Style News
Stu Kreisman

An excerpt from Dick Cheney's Diary: We turned around and I was back in my bedroom at stately Cheney Manor. "Ronnie? Mr. President?" I whispered, but he was gone.

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John "Nuke Bailout" Bryson Must Not Be Secretary of Energy

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Solartopia, Bailout, Secretary of Energy, Barack Obama, Deregulation, Green Energy, Nuclear Power, SoCalEd, Southern California Edison, California Public Utilities Commision, Pacific Gas and Electric, Gray Davis, Enron, CPUC, John Bryson, Sustainable Energy, Pete Wilson, Gov. Schwarzenegger, Ralph Canvanagh, Natural Resources Defense Council, Electric Power, Greenwashing, Green News
Harvey Wasserman

Long gone from Southern California Edison, John Bryson's ascent to head the Department of Energy would send a disastrous signal to those who are committed to a post fossil/nuclear future.

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The Supermajority and the S&P 500

Ron Galloway | Posted 11.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Democratic Congress, Wal-Mart, Enron, Stock Market, Barack Obama, Wall Street Crisis, 2008 Election, Business News
Ron Galloway

As it becomes more clear that Democrats will be in charge, I believe the market is reacting to what it sees as a looming anti-business environment.

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Whatever Happened To "The Magic Of The Marketplace" And "The Invisible Hand?"

Sandy Goodman | Posted 11.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Chase, Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, George Will, Enron, Treasury Secretary Paulson, Invisible Hand, Alan Greenspan, Capitalism, President Bush, Government, Adam Smith, Economy, Business News
Sandy Goodman

Many Americans still believe in the myth of the always perfect free market, in the face of irrefutable, worldwide evidence that there are times when it completely fails.

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The Mines are Full of Canaries

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Muriel Siebert, Wall Street Crisis, Economy, Options, Derivatives, Swaps, Enron, Greenspan, Washington Post, The Lessons of Enron, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Senate Subcomittee on Investigations, Bailout, Levitt, Brooksley E. Born, Market Crisis, Rubin, Long Term Capital Management, Futures, Business News
Margaret Heffernan

We need a new guard, who know the system but didn't build it. Don't let anyone tell you they're not out there. They've been there for years.

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The Smartest Guys on Wall Street

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business

Read More: John McCain, Alan Greenspan, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Meltdown, Sarah Palin, Enron, Business News
Joseph A. Palermo

We seem to have learned nothing from Enron. And we probably won't learn anything from the latest Wall Street catastrophe either.

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Green Edge 9: Tim Sanders on Greening U.S. Workplaces

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 10.26.2008 | Green

Read More: SAS Institute, Enron, Easter Seals, Green Edge, Patagonia, Green Mountain Coffee, Jeff Skoll, World, Worldcom, Work, Tom Kuntz, Doubleday, Saving, Environment, Stanford, Century 21, Tim Sanders, Google, Timberland, Juma, Interface, Aveda, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

Tim Sanders visited with me in New York today on a tour to promote his new book, Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go...

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