According to a report at Securities Docket : “In Ireland, an official at the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the country’s corporate watchdog, acknowledged that no one prosecuted for white-collar crime by the ODCE has been jailed in the 10-year history of the office.”
Here is an absoutely fascinating, if completly obtuse, article by the leftist WaPo columnist Ezra Klein . What is both fascinating, and obtuse, about Klein's column is its utter obliviousness to the nature of power. The ideal bureaucrat, in Klein’s view, is a scientific person indifferent to material wealth who wants only the ability to institute his judgments, independent of public favor or commercial concerns.
KaluginWASHINGTON, D.C. July 9, 2010 — In the mid-1960s the Soviets planted a "sleeper" agent in Washington, D.C. whose main "job" was to "
Two Government Defeats in Securities Cases. I wrote recently on the SEC’s defeat in the Rorech and Negrim case (alleging insider trading) and I briefly mentioned the Bristol-Myers case . Peter J. Henning, who writes about white-collar cases for the NYT (and is a professor of law at Wayne State University Law School) discusses both cases in this column: “Two More Setbacks in Securities Fraud Cases.”
Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell
The Wall Street Journal editorial page apologizes to Conrad Black . This is good to read, although the WSJ editorialists are perhaps the least culpable of all media in the persecution of businessmen. The truly vicious do not apologize. Ungrateful Wretches. According to an article at Forbes.com: “A group of 49 individual ticket buyers who say the proposed $3 billion merger between UAL Corp.’s United Air Lines Inc. and Continental Airlines Inc. would hurt airline industry competition have filed a fuit seeking to stop the deal ( “Ticket Buyers Sue To Stop $3B Continental-United Deal” ). This is the ultimate consequence of all those economic theorists, from Adam Smith on, who have attempted to justify capitalism morally by arguing its subservience to the consumer. The producer must obey the orders of the consumer, they said. Very well, reply these consumers of air travel, we shall give the producers orders, and we shall have them legally enforced. “For Whom the Dell Tolls” Carolyn Horner, writing on the blog OpenMarket.org, argues that the highly competitive market for personal computers should serve as a warning to antitrust persecutors who want to target an
Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead powerfully and credibly depicts how important moral integrity is in maintaining one’s personal independenc
Never religious, Ayn Rand was as potently spiritual as any writer; she knew how to speak in a thoroughly earthly way to those aspirations...
It has long been said that when twentieth-century "serious" music adopted noisy traffic horns or long periods of silence as stand-ins for ..
Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made
A collaboration between David Kelley and William R Thomas, based on a series of lectures originally composed by Dr. Kelley...
Photographer Daniella Zalcman spends a day with the street musicians and vendors of New York City. They might not be wearing suits or working at a computer, but they are taking an entrepreneurial approach to their life: being proactive, trading value for value, and persevering past obstacles in order to get one step closer to happiness.
But does every man feel like this at forty – I mean it’s like Thomas Wolfe’s New York, his heady light, the stunning plunging canyons...
Since 2006, the most objective presentations of conservative views to be heard in Manhattan have probably been those offered at a program...
Solomon L. Wisenberg, guest-blogging at White Collar Crime Pof Blog, writes about the SEC’s total defeat in the insider-trading case of SEC
Bill Mensching has aged a painting four hundred years, created a gigantic glass mural for a hotel in Las Vegas, and shipped the makings of..
er 2010 issue -- We’ve launched. Yes, we threw the switch and nothing blew up. On our new website that is. You can find it at www.atlassociety.org/tni. This is the new home for our print magazine as well as for web-only features. Each article comes with an “auto-podcasting” feature—meaning you can listen to any TNI print article over your computer speakers, or you can download it as an mp3 file. Now you can listen to TNI on a train, in a plane, or in a box with a fox. Anywhere you like. You also won’t want to miss our Live Discussions—text-based Q&A with various authors and opinion leaders. The TNI web home is part of a larger web-world, produced by our publisher, The Atlas Society. Visit the section next to TNI, and you’ll find the society’s new Business Rights Center, headed by the irreplaceable Roger Donway. Don’t miss his “Business Rights Watch” blog. You can also find interactive webinars to attend, free of charge, on intriguing issues, like individual rights. Understanding these issues will help you to understand the “clockwork” behind current events. The interactivity includes live opinion polling, Q&A, and virtual breakout rooms for concurrent discussions on different topics.
America is on the verge of a major economic and political crisis. Accordingly, it is a time for a transformative vision of society, a vision
The Atlas Society promotes open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, individualism, achievement, and freedom originated by Ayn Rand....
Do you remember slam! that orange moon Just blazing big against the South Beach sky? We idled by those bumpy stuccoed walls, Still warm—in melon, pink, chartreuse. And I, I said, “The moonlight slips right through the bars, For trysts in gardens when a lover comes.” Insistent sambas, smells of rum, made night As musky as perfume the dancing warms. We followed sounds of crazy, happy Cuban Carcajada, right up an outdoor stair To where that moon punched pow! into that blue: You with shoulders silvery and soft and bare. Across the table, I fidgeted and grinned: At you? Those Cuban babes? Quien sabe? And you just said: “Oh God, it's getting late,” And our last moon, bam! was gone, gone away. spiderID=619
According to a report at Securities Docket : “In Ireland, an official at the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the country’s corporate watchdog, acknowledged that no one prosecuted for white-collar crime by the ODCE has been jailed in the 10-year history of the office.”
Here is an absoutely fascinating, if completly obtuse, article by the leftist WaPo columnist Ezra Klein . What is both fascinating, and obtuse, about Klein's column is its utter obliviousness to the nature of power. The ideal bureaucrat, in Klein’s view, is a scientific person indifferent to material wealth who wants only the ability to institute his judgments, independent of public favor or commercial concerns.
KaluginWASHINGTON, D.C. July 9, 2010 — In the mid-1960s the Soviets planted a "sleeper" agent in Washington, D.C. whose main "job" was to "
Two Government Defeats in Securities Cases. I wrote recently on the SEC’s defeat in the Rorech and Negrim case (alleging insider trading) and I briefly mentioned the Bristol-Myers case . Peter J. Henning, who writes about white-collar cases for the NYT (and is a professor of law at Wayne State University Law School) discusses both cases in this column: “Two More Setbacks in Securities Fraud Cases.”
Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell
The Wall Street Journal editorial page apologizes to Conrad Black . This is good to read, although the WSJ editorialists are perhaps the least culpable of all media in the persecution of businessmen. The truly vicious do not apologize. Ungrateful Wretches. According to an article at Forbes.com: “A group of 49 individual ticket buyers who say the proposed $3 billion merger between UAL Corp.’s United Air Lines Inc. and Continental Airlines Inc. would hurt airline industry competition have filed a fuit seeking to stop the deal ( “Ticket Buyers Sue To Stop $3B Continental-United Deal” ). This is the ultimate consequence of all those economic theorists, from Adam Smith on, who have attempted to justify capitalism morally by arguing its subservience to the consumer. The producer must obey the orders of the consumer, they said. Very well, reply these consumers of air travel, we shall give the producers orders, and we shall have them legally enforced. “For Whom the Dell Tolls” Carolyn Horner, writing on the blog OpenMarket.org, argues that the highly competitive market for personal computers should serve as a warning to antitrust persecutors who want to target an
Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead powerfully and credibly depicts how important moral integrity is in maintaining one’s personal independenc
Never religious, Ayn Rand was as potently spiritual as any writer; she knew how to speak in a thoroughly earthly way to those aspirations...
It has long been said that when twentieth-century "serious" music adopted noisy traffic horns or long periods of silence as stand-ins for ..
Equality 7-2521, the hero of Anthem, is twenty-one years old when he escapes to freedom from a totalitarian state. The author of Anthem made
A collaboration between David Kelley and William R Thomas, based on a series of lectures originally composed by Dr. Kelley...
Photographer Daniella Zalcman spends a day with the street musicians and vendors of New York City. They might not be wearing suits or working at a computer, but they are taking an entrepreneurial approach to their life: being proactive, trading value for value, and persevering past obstacles in order to get one step closer to happiness.
But does every man feel like this at forty – I mean it’s like Thomas Wolfe’s New York, his heady light, the stunning plunging canyons...
Since 2006, the most objective presentations of conservative views to be heard in Manhattan have probably been those offered at a program...
Solomon L. Wisenberg, guest-blogging at White Collar Crime Pof Blog, writes about the SEC’s total defeat in the insider-trading case of SEC
Bill Mensching has aged a painting four hundred years, created a gigantic glass mural for a hotel in Las Vegas, and shipped the makings of..
er 2010 issue -- We’ve launched. Yes, we threw the switch and nothing blew up. On our new website that is. You can find it at www.atlassociety.org/tni. This is the new home for our print magazine as well as for web-only features. Each article comes with an “auto-podcasting” feature—meaning you can listen to any TNI print article over your computer speakers, or you can download it as an mp3 file. Now you can listen to TNI on a train, in a plane, or in a box with a fox. Anywhere you like. You also won’t want to miss our Live Discussions—text-based Q&A with various authors and opinion leaders. The TNI web home is part of a larger web-world, produced by our publisher, The Atlas Society. Visit the section next to TNI, and you’ll find the society’s new Business Rights Center, headed by the irreplaceable Roger Donway. Don’t miss his “Business Rights Watch” blog. You can also find interactive webinars to attend, free of charge, on intriguing issues, like individual rights. Understanding these issues will help you to understand the “clockwork” behind current events. The interactivity includes live opinion polling, Q&A, and virtual breakout rooms for concurrent discussions on different topics.
America is on the verge of a major economic and political crisis. Accordingly, it is a time for a transformative vision of society, a vision
The Atlas Society promotes open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, individualism, achievement, and freedom originated by Ayn Rand....
Do you remember slam! that orange moon Just blazing big against the South Beach sky? We idled by those bumpy stuccoed walls, Still warm—in melon, pink, chartreuse. And I, I said, “The moonlight slips right through the bars, For trysts in gardens when a lover comes.” Insistent sambas, smells of rum, made night As musky as perfume the dancing warms. We followed sounds of crazy, happy Cuban Carcajada, right up an outdoor stair To where that moon punched pow! into that blue: You with shoulders silvery and soft and bare. Across the table, I fidgeted and grinned: At you? Those Cuban babes? Quien sabe? And you just said: “Oh God, it's getting late,” And our last moon, bam! was gone, gone away. spiderID=619