Archive for the 'Business and Finance' Category

Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things

Monday, May 7th, 2012




Click Here to Read:  Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things by Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Spiegel on the NPR Radio website on May 7, 2012.

The Future of Focus Groups: My Brain Knows What You Like

Saturday, April 28th, 2012




Click Here to Read:  The Future of Focus Groups: My Brain Knows What You Like by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on April 28. 2012.

Increasingly in Europe, Suicides ‘by Economic Crisis’

Saturday, April 14th, 2012




Click Here to Read: Increasingly in Europe, Suicides ‘by Economic Crisis’ By Elisabetta  and Doreen Carvajal on  April 14, 2012.

George Mordaunt of Clonmel, Ireland, considered suicide when his car business hit hard times.

Farm helps heal vets

Monday, April 9th, 2012




Click Here to Read: Farm helps heal vets By Parija Kavilanz  on the CNNMoney website on April 5, 2012.

Eat your broccoli, Justice Scalia

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Click Here to Read:  Eat your broccoli, Justice Scalia by Steven Pearlstein in The Washington Post on March 31, 2012.

Justice Antonin Scalia

 

A Drumbeat on Profit Takers

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Click Here to Read: A Drumbeat on Profit Takers By Abigail Zuger, M.D.
in the New York Times on  March 19, 2011.

Arnold Relman and Marcia Angell: A video interview with two former editors of The New England Journal of Medicine who for decades have been warning of a growing “medical industrial complex.”

 

From Greg Smith To Bernie Madoff to Us

Monday, March 19th, 2012



Click Here to Read: From Greg Smith To Bernie Madoff to Us by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on March 18, 2012.

Gregg Smith

Goldman Sachs Director Quits, Calls Firm “Toxic”

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Click Here to Read: Goldman Sachs Director Quits, Calls Firm “Toxic.”  Greg Smith announced his resignation in a blistering open letter published in the New York Times By Abby Ohlheiser on The Slate website on March 14, 2012

Elimination of Psych Services at Cedars-Sinai Could Foreshadow Similar Cutbacks Elsewhere

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

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Click Here to Read: Elimination of Psych Services at Cedars-Sinai Could Foreshadow Similar Cutbacks Elsewhere By Stephen Barlas in the Psychiatric Times on February 8, 2012,

Research Shows Wealth-Greed Link, But Kindness Helps

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Click Here to Read:  Research Shows Wealth-Greed Link, But Kindness Helps by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website February, 28, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Are rich people more unethical? By Amanda Gardner on the CNN  Health.com website on  February 27, 2012.

 

‘Big Data’ Got You Creeped Out? Transparency Can Help

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

 

Click Here to Read: ‘Big Data’ Got You Creeped Out? Transparency Can Help by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on February 27, 2012.

Moral Hazard: A Tempest-Tossed Idea

Sunday, February 26th, 2012






Click Here to Read: Moral Hazard: A Tempest-Tossed Idea By Sheila Dewan in the New York Times on February 25, 2012.

Far From ‘a Total Loss’

Saturday, February 25th, 2012








Click Here to Read: .Far From ‘a Total Loss’  By Melanie Grayce West in the Wall Street Journal on February  25, 2012.

David McWilliams: Illusion of Greek bailout is Europe’s dirty little secret

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012




Click Here to Read: David McWilliams: Illusion of Greek bailout is Europe’s dirty little secret on the Independent.ie website on February 22, 2012.

John Reed on Big Banks’ Power and Influence

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

 

Click Here to Read: John Reed on Big Banks’ Power and Influence by Bill Moyers on the TruthOut website on February 1, 2012.

John Reed

Psychologist explains financial market madness

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Click Here to Read: Psychologist explains financial market madness on the Health Canal Website on Feburary 1, 2012.

Susan Long

How to Save the Euro

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Click Here to Read: How to Save the Euro by George Soros in the New York Review of Books on January 1, 2012.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Berlin, January 11, 2012

No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Click Here to Read and View: No More Résumés, Say Some Firms by Emma Rachel Silverma in the Wall Street Journal on January 24, 2012.

Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) by David Tuckett

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012






Click Here to Read: Making Markets Safer (Excerpt) by David Tuckett on the Huffington Post website January 10, 2012.

An Entrepreneurial Solution To The Problem Of Getting Local Food To Local Tables: Trust, Convenience, And Perceived Value

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011






Click Here to Read: An Entrepreneurial Solution To The Problem Of Getting Local Food To Local Tables: Trust, Convenience, And Perceived Value by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on December 19, 2011.