by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 8, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
This TED Talk addresses the banking crisis from a regulatory standpoint, arguing it was intentional, we knew it was coming, and worst of all did nothing about it, even after the fact. It was “70 times” worse than the scandals of the 80s and 90s, yet unlike...
by Barry Fagin | Jun 24, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, March 27, 2014} This week the Supreme Court heard arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. This is a high-profile, high-stakes [[Obamacare]] case. Ultimately, the court will be asked to shed light on the question of...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 16, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, December 12, 2013, as “Forced to bake a cake”} To some, it’s freedom of conscience. To me, it’s freedom of bigotry. But we agree that someone’s freedom was lost last Friday, at the hands of the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 27, 2014 | Business & Economics, Psychology, Society & Culture
This TED Talk is an interesting overview of studies showing that having more resources and advantage may make people less empathetic and more dominant, even attributing their success to personal actions over circumstance. It also asserts that economic inequality...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 6, 2014 | Business & Economics, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk shows how additional risk factors in investment — environment, social and governance, or ESG — qualify sustainability, and are at the very least compatible with investment returns. And in the long-term, protection of investment within...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 22, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
This TED Talk applies the concept of transparency to the non-transparent arena of credit rations, that globally are controlled today by three for-profit companies that cannot even demonstrate lack of conflict of interest. Her proposal is the creation of an...