Tax Day and Corporate Form Bonus

This week’s chapter, about the rise fo the corporate form, playso ut on the backdro of the basic institutional and regualtory background of capitlalist societies. Regulation and economic forces are on everyone’s mind as we survey the landscape in our new post-industrial, post-bubble Great Recession. So, I offer this longish article about Cass Sunstein, the [...]

Preventing Human Nature

While reading about the debacle and collapse of Enron, I find myself constantly drawing connections between the largest bankruptcy in U.S history, and the pending doom faced by our nation’s banks. Before the U.S began to expirience an economic downturn, both Enron, and our nations banking powerhouses, such as Citigroup, both strongly resisted government regulation. [...]

Useful graphic of Stimulus Bill

This is a useful graphic of the elements of the stimulus bill. To see better, make your view larger by hitting ctrl + in Firefox.  Or, click on link above.

Death by Peanut Butter

In order to make the reading a little easier, I split my blog into two parts. First, there is a review of the article I found, followed by an analysis and connection to the prior class discussion and article… Article Review: As many of you know probably already know, there has recently been an outbreak [...]