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May 24

Corporate Personhood and Citizens United

Part III Part I and Part II Corporate personhood is essential to the discussions on Citizens United because critics who rightly oppose the result in that case wrongly attack it on the basis of corporate personhood. You may see from Parts I & II in this series that corporate personhood…

Law

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Corporate Personhood and Citizens United
Corporate Personhood and Citizens United
Law

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May 9

How All Profits are Dangerously Stripped Out of a Corporation

The Structure of The Corporation — In Practice Part II In Part I, I explained the structure of the corporation in theory, but that’s not how it works in practice. In practice, the corporation is more like a monarchy with the CEO at its head. This is due to the…

Economics

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How All Profits are Dangerously Stripped Out of a Corporation
How All Profits are Dangerously Stripped Out of a Corporation
Economics

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May 2

The Abuse of The Corporate Form: Why Corporations Are Out of Control

Part I Since the 1990s headlines have blared about outrageous CEO pay. Politicians, Bill Clinton is one example, had pledged to “putting people first” to end it. All to no avail. Analysts and economists have criticized the ever-increasing corporate buybacks for a decade or so because of their role in…

Corporate

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The Abuse of The Corporate Form: Why Corporations Are Out of Control
The Abuse of The Corporate Form: Why Corporations Are Out of Control
Corporate

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Apr 17

William Lazonick, Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the U.S. Corporation. A Review

If you are at all concerned about the cruel, rising inequality in our society, this is one of your must reads. Some writers, certainly not enough, have identified buybacks as the prime mechanism for the unconscionable level of the upward transfer of wealth since the 1980s. However, appeals to fairness…

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William Lazonick, Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the U.S.
William Lazonick, Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in the U.S.

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Apr 3

Why Buybacks Are a Major Cause of Rising Inequality

The 1980s were a tipping point for economic inequality. Up to that point, there had been a fair distribution of the wealth that the workers of a nation created. On a single salary, an average family could afford a modest home and a car. But since the 1980s, although worker…

Economic Inequality

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Why Buybacks Are a Major Cause of Rising Inequality
Why Buybacks Are a Major Cause of Rising Inequality
Economic Inequality

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Mar 24

What Actually Happened at SVB: History Repeated Itself

The lesson supposedly learned from the 2008 crisis is that the banks needed a larger reserves of capital (net assets) to weather the usual downturns in the business cycle, but also to have sufficient cash on hand to meet all demands for withdrawals immediately. Canadian banks did not need a…

Economic Inequality

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What Actually Happened at SVB: History Repeated Itself
What Actually Happened at SVB: History Repeated Itself
Economic Inequality

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Age of Awareness

·Apr 27, 2022

CEO Pay Explodes Again: Why All Attempts To Stop It Have Failed

It’s that time of year again. Public companies have sent out their financial statements ahead of their spring annual general meetings. Reporters are reading them, gasping at the continued enormity of CEO pay — as they have been doing for 40 years — then reporting them in tones of outrage. …

Economics

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CEO Pay Explodes Again: Why All Attempts To Stop It Have Failed
CEO Pay Explodes Again: Why All Attempts To Stop It Have Failed
Economics

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Age of Awareness

·Mar 16, 2022

Exposing Russian Oligarch Wealth: The Untold Story

Superyacht Lady M owned by Alexei Mordashov Governments proudly take credit for instantly slapping powerful restrictions on Russian billionaires and their assets. But how did the governments know where these assets are? Ironically these governments knew of the assets in spite of those governments’ efforts to vigorously and viciously prosecute…

Russia

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Exposing Russian Oligarch Wealth: The Untold Story
Exposing Russian Oligarch Wealth: The Untold Story
Russia

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Age of Awareness

·Mar 1, 2022

With Today’s Housing Crisis, Are We Approaching the Taxes or Pitchforks Moment?

• The first part of this series describes the role of secret foreign ownership in driving up prices and the ineffectiveness of legislation that is supposed to disclose these investors, available here. A reader from Sacramento, wrote this to me last week: “The homelessness crisis here is worse than I…

Inequality

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With Today’s Housing Crisis, Are We Approaching the Taxes or Pitchforks Moment?
With Today’s Housing Crisis, Are We Approaching the Taxes or Pitchforks Moment?
Inequality

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Feb 16, 2022

"The solution: ABSOLUTELY AND COMPLETELY PROHIBIT FUTURE CORPORATE OR GROUP OWNERSHIP in any form…
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Jim Roye

No, spouses would not constitute a group.

No, spouses would not constitute a group. I doubt most people would think so. However, legislation such as this would contain a definition section for inclusions and exclusions. But that level of detail is not only mind numbing but outside a post.

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Jan D Weir

Jan D Weir

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Retired trial lawyer, has taught Business Law at the University of Toronto, Author, text on business law @JanWeirLaw | http://jdweir.com

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