by Don Mayer Donald Trump’s judicial chickens have come home to roost, and they are laying some perfectly legal but horribly misshapen eggs. Trump, with the help of Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society, and then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, approved...
By Don Mayer It’s fairly commonplace for CEOs of U.S. companies to move quickly into crisis management mode after a public relations disaster. Alan Shaw, CEO of Norfolk Southern, was in just such a mode after the February 2023 train derailment in East Palestine,...
Some myths die hard. Or, don’t die at all. One is the myth of the self-regulating market; rational bankers would not (surely not!) take such risks with their own and their depositors’ money that their institutions would be bankrupt (or need a government...
By Don Mayer March 7, 2023 Call me biased, but I’m starting to get more than a little “steamed” over politicians who claim to be re-planting the flag of freedom in the State of Florida. On National Public Radio this morning (March 7, 2023) we learned that the Florida...
In the March 6 podcast from PRI’s The World, we learn that Turkey’s autocratic ruler, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, pushed through a law that criminalizes reporting on the damages from the massive earthquake that recently shook southern Turkey and northern Syria....
