Wednesday, August 27, 2014

When is Discrimination Apparently Not Discrimination?

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It seems that if you discriminate on the basis of economics, that's OK. Today's New York Times has an interesting Mireya Navarro ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Write Well and Keep Our Advertisers Happy

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Imagine, for a moment, that you are the chief executive of a major magazine publishing company. These are tough days in the print publicati...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Who Lives? Who Dies? You Decide.

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Medical history is rife with the stories of unethical research (e.g., Tuskegee syphilis experiments; Centers for  Disease Control comments h...
Monday, August 11, 2014

If You're Planning on Bringing Out the Big Guns...

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...Please make sure they're aimed correctly. Over the weekend, I read the full-page ad that "Authors United" ran in the Ne...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

The Only Reason I'm Not Boycotting Market Basket Is...

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... There isn't one in my neighborhood. But as a native Bay Stater, I've been following the extraordinary story of grocery workers...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Worried About That Used Car You're Thinking of Buying? Go to New York City.

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Why regulate? I'll say it again: Because if you don't, too many people won't do the right thing. I wish that weren't true...
Friday, July 18, 2014

How Is Inversion Different From Evasion?

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If you're talking taxes, the answer's easy: Inversion is legal, evasion is not. But if you're talking the morality of tax-avo...