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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 minutos
Hay que enseñar con cuidado

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 minutos
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 minutos
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 de noviembre de 2011
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10 minutos
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 minutos
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 de octubre de 2011
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David Burge
6 minutos
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 minutos
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 minutos
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 minutos
Steve Jobs contra los anticapitalistas

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 minutos
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 minutos
¡Arráncales los pulmones!

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 minutos
Un jurado viciado

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 minutos
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 minutos
El árbol de la toma (vídeo)

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 minuto
El 11-S una década después

La primera década del siglo XXI estuvo marcada por los islamistas, que utilizaron aviones como armas contra las Torres Gemelas y el World Trade Center.

11 de septiembre de 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 minutos
Altruismo y Capitalismo

El sistema capitalista se inició en el siglo que va de 1750 a 1850, como resultado de tres revoluciones. La primera fue una revolución....

31 de agosto de 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
12 minutos
No Tengo Que

Tengo que sacar la basura ... cambiar el aceite del carro ... pagar mi tarjeta Visa ... Tengo que hacer una presentación en la reunión de

31 de agosto de 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
5 minutos
El Asalto a la Civilización

30 de agosto de 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
No se incline ante estos molinos de viento

Este fin de semana, el medio ambiente -el huracán Irene, concretamente- me ha quitado la energía eléctrica. A partir del sábado por la noche, tuve, en mi apartamento

30 de agosto de 2011
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2 minutos

Promovemos el Objetivismo abierto: la filosofía de la razón, el logro, el individualismo y la libertad.