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One of the few tangible ways that Dodd-Frank has helped damp down financial excess had been the introduction of shareholder Say on Pay votes on the remuneration of top …

I haven’t been writing about the JPMorgan debacle because, well, everyone else is writing about it. One theme that has stuck out for me, however, has been everyone’s reflexive …

It was fitting that while President Obama and his Hollywood apostles broke fundraising records at a sumptuous $40,000 per plate dinner at George Clooneyu2019s place, word of JPM Chaseu2019s …

Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and theneck-and-neck opinion polls are pouring in.  But …

Right now, as Warren and Brown meet voters, they are telling their stories as political parables, loaded with ideas about opportunity versus just deserts, social investment versus making your …

Last week, I was invited to speak to 40 high school freshman about human rights. When we discussed the right to be free from torture, I asked the students …

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According to Science Times, the Tuesday science section in The New York Times, scientific retractions are on the rise because of a

The colonists who founded this country fought a revolutionary war against taxation without representation. More than 200 years later, one of the greatest American ironies is that our capital …