Thursday, October 17, 2013

Just What's In That Plastic Container? And Why?

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Here's another "what if" scenario to think about: What if ... you had been manufacturing a product, successfully, profitably...
Friday, October 4, 2013

"See No Evil, Face No Liability"

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Today's headline is lifted from New York Times finance columnist Floyd Norris' piece about Ponzi schemes. While a single individua...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Happy Crash Anniversary. Sort of.

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It's been five years since the financial markets nearly melted down, and threatened to take the whole US economy down with it. Feel like...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

If You Tell a Lie in a Forest, and No One Hears, Is It Really a Lie?

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I don't know, but good luck finding a forest where no one else can hear you any more. Or see you, on the branch-mounted spycam. On the...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Another "Surprising" Headline about Conflicts of Interest

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Today's New York Times has a brief article by Robert Pear with one of the most un-surprising headlines I can remember: "Doctors W...
Monday, August 12, 2013

It Take More than Not Doing Wrong to Do Right

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We often think of ethics as "doing the right thing". In other words, we think of it as resisting the temptation to do wrong: someb...
Friday, July 26, 2013

Does a Traffic Ticket Mean You're More Inclined to Fraud? Maybe....

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I'll be the first to admit that I have been known to exceed posted limits on the highway. By how much? Hmmm. Maybe I'd better lay cl...