Triangulating Law, Data & Ethics
Today, in congressional action sure to give every internal auditor and financial analyst recurring nightmares, members of the U.S. House Capital Markets Subcommittee demanded that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) demonstrate greater flexibility and speed in changing market-to-market (or “fair value”) accounting rules in the face of today’s financial industry crisis, or else. Much […]
When I first watched commodities traders at Chicago’s CME denounce President Obama’s Homeowner Affordability & Stability Plan, I was on board with the traders. “How dare anyone ask that I help pay off my neighbor’s mortgage? If they bit off more than they could chew, that’s their fault!” But I began to have second thoughts […]
James Madison saw Bernie Madoff 220 years in advance. That so many supposedly bright people were duped by Madoff testifies to their ignorance or disregard of history and to what may be an approaching nadir in the cycle of American public virtue. At the Convention called by the Commonwealth of Virginia to debate the newly […]
