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Of Snowboarders and Corporations
OF SNOWBOARDERS AND CORPORATIONS By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman What’s the most powerful and underutilized legal tool in combating corporate crime and violence? Sarbanes Oxley? No. The Martin Act? No. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act? No. The antitrust laws? Clearly not. No, the most powerful and underutilized tool in combating corporate crime and violence…
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Postcard to Incoming Fed Chair Ben Bernanke
The BBC World Business Report aired a slightly revised version of this commentary last week: Not long ago, my mother visited a gardening store looking to buy some smoothed rocks to decorate her garden. She was more than a bit startled to find the rocks — rocks! — had been imported from China. That’s not…
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Giving Away Development Rights in Washington, DC
Today the Washington Post reports that the District of Columbia is considering giving away development rights to publicly owned property to private developers, in exchange for commitments that they build libraries, schools or other public facilities.With the costs of fixing schools and libraries estimated at close to $2 billion, said D.C. Council Chairman Linda W.…