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Commentary, Politics / guns, Republicans, terrorism /

Paris and Refugees

November 18, 2015

One more quick word: How wrong is it to reduce or stop entirely our willingness to accommodate refugees fleeing from the middle east? The knee jerk reaction on the right has been to call for a total halt to that willingness. What a horrible and un-American reaction. Since 9/11 America has steadily exhibited a cowardice and […]

Commentary / guns, Republicans /

One Word: Guns!

November 18, 2015

This is off topic, but really? One of the defining characteristics of the modern Republican party is its gun worship. Any time we have a major crime involving shooting – which is far too frequent for an erstwhile civilized country – somewhere one of the Republican candidates for the presidency will pop up and argue […]

Economics / business school, economic theory, finance, Milton Friedman, shareholder value, shareholders /

Shareholders and Public Trust?

November 17, 2015

I remember sitting at business school what seems a lifetime ago and absorbing with enthusiasm the latest financial trickery. It seemed so much more rigorous than all the other stuff. I felt as if I was being taught something incisive, something with intellectual heft, something that was not subject to the whim of subjective belief, […]

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