Assign each of our state universities an industry to monitor and inspire with notions of honesty, sustainability, accountability and research and development. All professors and students participate in watch-dogging as well as inspiring. This is the white-on-rice approach. Rather than the precarious industry insider or collusive government regulator as monitor, all oversight is by enthusiastic, [...]
You can learn a lot about a corporation’s core beliefs in democracy by examining the toilet paper dispensers in their facility restrooms. McDonalds has a dispenser the size of a spare tire in a stainless steel armor case, the t.p. is three inches wide, narrower than standard, and a person hits their knuckles on the [...]
During my life two things have occurred that suggest the Mafia is the avante-garde for our banking – financial services industries. In 1963 a New York mobster was convicted for loan-sharking. He charged 13% interest on his loans. During the early 1970s, in Arizona, the mob was involved in packaging questionable real estate mortgages into [...]