I know that different people have different opinions on capital punishment. Most of you know that I’m opposed to capital punishment because our justice system is provably imperfect… you can’t fix death. Well, just like most of these kind of debates, I hope that this example from China gives us some common ground, specifically that financial fraud shouldn’t lead to executions. Crazy world we live in…
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11/24/2008
Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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September 14th, 2004 at 9:00 pm
Ask the employees of Enron and Anderson Consulting what they would want to happen to the executives after their mismanagement and illegal acts ruined the employees’ livelyhood and decimated their retirement saving. I bet death might be getting off easy.
Maybe stiffer penalties for white collar crimes would make fewer of them happen.
September 14th, 2004 at 10:17 pm
OK, so let’s kill em all!
September 14th, 2004 at 10:56 pm
Villianous Corporate Execs on Spikes? Go for it!
September 15th, 2004 at 12:41 pm
I still like the Bowling For Columbine idea of making the chasing down/arresting of white collar criminals a show like Cops… where they wind up taking their shirt off half way through the chase or something.
September 15th, 2004 at 1:37 pm
pasty pale, out of shape 50 year old men… nah, I’ll pass on them taking their shirts off… but, if they are required to take their shirts off, maybe it will help us put more women in America’s boardrooms. Corporate Cops Uncensored videos! Think of the revenue streams!
September 18th, 2004 at 4:44 pm
go one step further… go to 50 and 60 year old women
I am still haunted by the scene in SOMETHING ABOUT MARY….
and with the binoculars close up …ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
a mucully mccaulkin scream
September 18th, 2004 at 4:45 pm
by the way, did you see macauley mccaulking got arrested for drugs in oklahoma