Welcome to BA300 – Principles of Finance. I look forward to spending the next few weeks with you as we explore Corporate Finance. A few things as we dig into the semester – Tests and…
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Fake News and Why My Opinion Matters
I’m continuously amused or aggravated (depending on my mood) by the “news” in my Facebook feed. Usually posted by folks with no clue (and my clues are limited). “If ‘everyone’s entitled to their opinion’ just…
A Few Post-Election Thoughts
I was raised in a Democratic household by a Truman Democrat father and a Kennedy Democrat mother. Dad was active at the party. I collected ballot signatures as a kid. Bobby Kennedy was practically canonized…
Global Economics
The ability to have free trade in goods and services helps more than it hurts. The global economic powers must help that negatively affected transition, but the world is better when goods and services, instead…
Fiscal Policy and Federal Intervention – More Hope than Change
After eight years of aggressive policy moves by both the Bush and Obama administrations, little has changed in the average American’s economic life. We are no longer looking at a collapse of the banking system….
Rawls and the Veil of Ignorance in the Constitution
On this Constitution Day weekend, one of the timeless components that have allowed the United States Constitution to survive for over 225 years has been the design elements that help prevent self-dealing and reduce overt…
Why Positive Legal Analysis Matters
While there is an argument that the normative “should” questions of the law create an exciting approach to legal thinking, there are many areas, particularly in constitutional law, where the positive analysis of what the…
The Economist Gets It – The New Political Divide is Open vs. Closed, not Left vs. Right
I agree. International cooperation is foundational for peace and global prosperity. Openness doesn’t mean losing sovereignty, but collaboration, cooperation, and a recognition that we are all interconnected by technology, a global economy, and shared humanity….
A Constitutionalist’s View of The Hillary Clinton E-Mail Investigation
Being a Constitutionalist means that sometimes the results are not what you like but are what the constitution requires. In the case of the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton, there have been calls of a…
Missouri v Jenkins (93-1823), 515 U.S. 70 (1995)
A great observation by the Washington Policy Center’s Jason Mercier…especially for our judges and justices. Jason Mercier July 20 at 1:53 pm · With McCleary in the news, interesting concurrence from Justice Thomas in this 1995…