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More audit transparency for investors makes a bitter proposal easier to swallow

Via The Conversation The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has recently announced a binding federal law that requires the disclosure of the name of the person who oversaw an audit of a company’s books. This is one of the most significant changes to auditing standards in the last 30 years and could have a […]

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Op Ed: Top American Legal Authority Says New Pentagon War Manual Reduces Us To Nazi Level

Francis Boyle, the world-renowned international law expert and professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign, has denounced the Pentagon’s recently released Law of War Manual (LOWM) as an affront to humanity. Boyle, who was the top student of Richard Baxter, the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Judge

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Obama hopes to enlist GOP in push for trade pact, despite Democratic resistance

The Washington Post explains the dilemma… President Obama is pushing ahead with a major initiative to establish a vast free-trade zone, with the aim of enlisting Republicans as partners and testing his belief that Washington can still find common ground on major initiatives. This has stirred up traditional political alliances, as the White House plots

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Power, Sex and Money

What do former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, newly resigned International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops have in common? They are all powerful, older men, who have access to money and who may have hidden acts of abuse for years. They each have used their wealth and power for

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