November 13th, 2012
November 2012 It is time to eliminate the Electoral College. Voters prefer the popular vote, and the reason for adopting the Electoral College initially is [...]
July 31st, 2012
August 2012 Since the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on average increased the total number of medals awarded by [...]
July 31st, 2012
August 2012 The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) proposed and the SEC approved FINRA Rule 2090 (Know Your Customer) and FINRA Rule 2111 (Suitability) as [...]
July 31st, 2012
July 2012 It depends on how success is measured. If the total number of medals won is the metric used, the United States is the [...]
June 6th, 2012
January 2012 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently released a report entitled “United States Sustainability Report”. The report is part of a series addressing certain [...]
June 6th, 2012
May 2012 CEO magazine released its eighth annual survey of the best and worst states in which to do business. California managed to be rated [...]
June 6th, 2012
May 2012 Young people are the casualties of Congress’s unwillingness to address Social Security. Assuming politicians can get agreement that something needs to done about [...]
June 6th, 2012
April 2012 The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) is paying much greater attention to economic cost-benefit analysis in its rule making activities. Private concerns wishing to [...]
June 6th, 2012
April 2012 With President Obama’s signature, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, is now law. The law raced through [...]
June 6th, 2012
March 2012 In March 2012, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report on TARP’s Capital Purchase Program (CPP). The report described this Troubled Asset [...]
June 6th, 2012
February 2012 On the last day of January 2012, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued its budget and spending projections for the federal government covering [...]
June 6th, 2012
February 2012 The Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) has the statutory duty to conduct, supervise and coordinate audits and investigations [...]
December 1st, 2011
November 2011 Accounting firm KPMG and the Financial Executives Institute sponsored a study of the complexity in U.S. financial reporting. Aptly entitled “Disclosure Overload and [...]
November 3rd, 2011
November 2011 The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Section 1004 of the economic stimulus law) provides for a refundable tax credit known as [...]
September 8th, 2011
September 2011 Undocumented workers in the United States received refundable tax credits totaling $4.2 billion in 2010, an amount which is dramatically higher than [...]
January 17th, 2011
January 2011 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has long sought to impose rules requiring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to continue to offer equal treatment to [...]
May 18th, 2009
May 2006 This month, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) changes to its Code of Arbitration [...]
March 17th, 2009
March 2009 Last week, the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) and The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University [...]
August 18th, 2008
August 2010 A report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provided its assessment of the U.S. monetary crisis and related recession. This was the [...]
August 1st, 2008
June 2011 Two different reports by reputable consulting firms each conclude that more than half of employers will eliminate or change their existing health [...]
August 1st, 2008
July 2011 With unemployment rates stubbornly over 9%, U.S. employment is topmost on practically everyone’s mind. Generally, the American economy is barely adding more jobs [...]
July 18th, 2008
July 2009 Policies to address the U.S. use and supply of oil are among one of the most important economic and political issues of the [...]
June 18th, 2008
June 2009 The value of residential real estate held by households totaled $22.5 trillion in 2007. By comparison, the market capitalization of domestic equities was [...]
June 18th, 2008
June 2010 In its sixth annual report, the May/June 2010 edition of CEO Magazine reported the results of its survey of over 650 chief executive [...]
June 18th, 2008
June 2010 Nevada is running another series of advertisements which attempt to woo California’s businesses to their state. Advertisements released this last week mock California [...]
May 18th, 2008
May 2011 Chief Executive Magazine released its seventh annual survey of CEOs regarding the best and worst states in which to do business. For the [...]
May 18th, 2008
May 2011 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke held the first-ever news conference by a Federal Reserve Chairman. The move was an obvious effort to calm [...]
April 18th, 2008
April 2011 Recently, governors in Ohio, Wisconsin, and Florida made headlines by rejecting plans to build high speed rail lines within their states. High speed [...]
March 18th, 2008
March 2011 Listening to certain political commentaries, one is led to believe that the “rich” are getting richer, while the “poor” are getting poorer. These [...]
February 18th, 2007
February 2011 On January 26, 2011, the FCC designated nine companies to act as database administrators for licensing television white space. The FCC noted [...]