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Since January 2007, IGE founder Dr. Rush Kidder has been a contributor to O, The Oprah Magazine, offering advice on the ethical issues of daily life.
Read his suggestions as part of the O Magazine 'Now What Do I Do?' Advisory Panel.
Upcoming Seminars
Ethics & Parenting Symposium
September 23, 2008
St. Louis, MO
Facilitator: Rushworth Kidder
For more information, or to register call: 800-729-2615 or email: events@globalethics.org
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As noted in Rushworth Kidder’s recent commentary, the Institute for Global Ethics has begun gathering results from a new survey assessing the most severe global challenges facing humanity. This survey now has been unrolled publicly. If you’d like to participate, just click here and let your views be known. Thank you. |
Ethics Newsline® Commentary:
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Locust Ethics
Admittedly, it’s a complex story. Last week’s plunge in the market values of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two institutions guaranteeing home mortgages in the United States, now will be used as evidence for any number of arguments. Should there be tighter regulation of the mortgage business? Were the rating agencies largely to blame? Were there too many dangerous innovations such as collateralized debt obligations? Would lobbying reforms have prevented the favored treatment granted these quasi-governmental giants? Most important, should Congress now use public funds to save Fannie and Freddie, or are these two behemoths, as London’s Financial Times opined over the weekend, nothing but “socialist turkeys coming home to roost in the U.S., home of free-market capitalism”? |
