Wednesday, May 20, 2015

How Long Should It Take to Admit to Product Defects?

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That, of course, is a very different question from, "How Long Will  It Take to Admit to Product Defects?" About six months ago, ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

What Does It Take to Get Fired?

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If you're a stockbroker, apparently, more than can be believed. As The New York Times ' Susan Antilla wrote in today's paper (...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Surprise! Looks Like Us Non-Bankers Were Right About the Bankers

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Every since the 2008 financial crisis nearly imploded the whole global financial system, we non-bankers have been hoping for a perp walk in ...
Friday, May 8, 2015

It's a STEAL! But From Whom, Exactly, Are You Stealing?

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I've complained a lot in this blog about corporations and executives, about bankers behaving badly (example, here ) and about corporatio...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Why Are We Talking about a $10 or $15 Minimum Wage? What About $33.65?

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The news has been full of reports lately about planned increases to the minimum wage by various large employers (and for those who haven...
Monday, March 23, 2015

When is That "Great Deal" Not So Great?

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I've written before (for example, here ) about the difficulty in buying ethically-sourced clothing. Most of us don't have our clothe...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Legal, Ethical: Not Synonyms

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The reason we have two different words -- "legal" and "ethical" -- is that they are not synonyms. We do of course hope t...