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Salon.com
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Investors of the world, unite! Former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt declares the time is ripe for fighting back against Wall Street.   |
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March 26, 2001
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Will the Dems derail McCain-Feingold? Campaign reform diary, Week 2: After a successful first week, the bill's supporters brace for opposition from unexpected places... |
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September 1, 2002
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I Told You So To controversial securities litigator Bill Lerach, the current wave of corporate fraud scandals was both inevitable and preventable. |
Salon.com
March 28, 2001
Jake Tapper |
It's in the Democrats' hands As the compromises on McCain-Feingold get pounded out, skeptics wonder if Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is really willing to bend... |
Salon.com
March 30, 2001
Jake Tapper |
McCain-Feingold seems a done deal After a dramatic final tussle, the first sweeping campaign reform since the 1970s seems ready to pass the Senate... |
Reason
November 2007
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John Edwards vs. the Lobbyists A presidential candidate promises to clean up Washington by trashing the First Amendment |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Arthur Levitt |
You Are the Guardians Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt offers some pointed advice on how to restore confidence in corporate accounting. |
U.S. Banker
March 2010
Alan Kline |
Dysfunction in D.C. The sight of Democrats cheering and Republicans sitting on their hands when the president plugged financial reform was disheartening to anyone who believes the system needs fixing. |
Reason
December 2005
Bradley A. Smith |
John McCain's War on Political Speech How the Arizona senator and other campaign finance reformers use the law to muffle critics and trample the First Amendment. |
BusinessWeek
October 2, 2006
Dunham & Javers |
How Business Is Wooing Democrats The possibility the GOP could lose the House has companies scrambling to make nice. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Robert Kuttner |
The Big Board: Crying Out for Regulation The Grasso pay debacle means the SEC should supervise the NYSE. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others |
Inc.
September 2005
Amy Feldman |
Surviving Sarbanes-Oxley A law intended to clean up big public companies has taken its toll on small private ones -- both financially and emotionally. But there may finally be relief in sight. |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
Salon.com
July 13, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Capitalists without a clue Once all-seeing captains of industry, America's CEOs are now playing the Sgt. Schultz dumbo card, braying "I know no-thing, no-thing!" |
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2003
Matt Valley Editor |
Sarbanes-Oxley is onerous What Corporate America needs is more integrity, not more due diligence and documentation. Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley consumes time that could be spent creating shareholder value and may encourage some public companies to go private. |
Salon.com
January 31, 2002
Eric Boehlert |
Andrew Sullivan's selective Enron outrage The failed energy trader didn't just spend money on politicians. It gave handily to journalists, too. But why is Sullivan most angry about the one liberal who cashed in? |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Mike France |
Corporate America's New Accountability When companies break the law, the first thing chief executives typically do is plead ignorance. But in a post-Enron world, "I didn't know" won't cut it. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 18, 2003 |
Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America. |
Insurance & Technology
January 28, 2010 |
Full Text: Obama's State of the Union Address The following are remarks U.S. President Barack Obama made during his State of the Union Wednesday before a joint session of Congress in Washington. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Dayana Yochim |
It's Time for a Shareholder Revolution The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act is the most prominent, widely publicized proposal on corporate governance to come out of this crisis. |
Managed Care
November 2007
John Carroll |
Plans Unsettled By Prospect of Democrat in White House The health insurance industry might be able to help itself by coming up with ideas to influence the presidential debate. |
AskMen.com
October 1, 2013
Ian Lang |
The Shutdown: At Least It Doesn't Affect Happy Hour This is schoolyard politics, more akin to gang warfare than anything productive. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2003
Jim Heskett |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? The collapse of companies like Enron and WorldCom cost investors tens of billions of dollars. But that amount may be dwarfed by the cost of conforming to new laws driven by those corporate scandals -- laws that are intended to protect investors. |
BusinessWeek
November 20, 2006
Dunham & Javers |
The Politics Of Change As power shifts on Capitol Hill, business faces a new reality |
Registered Rep.
December 9, 2002
Will Leitch |
I'm From the Government. I'm Here to Help You The prevailing mindset at the somewhat sparsely attended Securities Industry Association seminar on corporate governance Thursday was not fear of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- but the SEC's interpretation of it |
Salon.com
December 3, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Profits before patriotism How the Homeland Security bill rewarded corporate tax dodgers. |
Reason
June 2008
David Weigel |
Union Rules The Democratic coalition rubs its hands at the prospect of taking over Washington. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Charlie Rose |
Nancy Pelosi: Health-Care Reform Endgame A conversation with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 10, 2003 |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Readers respond: Legislation is a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior... Investors are always free to vote on the adequacy of a company's financial transparency with their dollars... The more transparency there is, the better... etc. |
U.S. Banker
January 2002 |
Trust Big Accounting Firms? Arthur Andersen, the huge accounting firm, hides behind legal technicalities to excuse itself for approving Enron's financial statements. Rather than working for shareholders and investors as it is supposed to, Andersen seems to have done whatever Enron's management wanted it to... |
AFP eWire
August 18, 2006 |
IRA Rollover Signed Into Law President Bush signed into law a pension reform bill that includes several giving incentives, including the IRA rollover provision. Fundraising strategies and plans will need to be immediately adjusted. |
