Unintended Consequences of Earlier Reforms Bite Market Hard
By: Paul Craig Roberts|27 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: unintended consequences accounting
Washington Times, March 16, 2003 The Number: How The Drive For Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street And Corporate America By Alex Berenson Random House, $24.95, 274 pages Alex Berenson is a New York Times business reporter, who sniffed out a couple of the accounting scandals that investors and Wall Street analysts failed to spot. In “The Number: How the Drive…
Read more »'Gods and Generals': Movie Critics Betray Their Profession
By: Paul Craig Roberts|17 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: march 17
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Read more »The L-1 Visa: New Tool To Dispossess Americans
By: Paul Craig Roberts|11 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: who is supposed to be paying for the l 1 employee
U.S. corporations no longer have to outsource your high-tech or information technology (IT) job to China or India. They just bring your replacement here on an L-1 visa. L-1 visas get around the legal technicalities that Congress placed on the H-1B visa program. Employers are not supposed to use H-1B visas to bring in foreigners to displace U.S. employees or…
Read more »Privilege Before the Law
By: Paul Craig Roberts|06 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: statuses of persons before the law
[Originally published in The American Conservative 2-24-03] Equality before the law is an achievement of a thousand-year struggle, but Americans have carelessly thrown it away. We have spent the past 37 years resurrecting feudalism, a system of differential legal rights based on status. The new legal aristocrats are “preferred minorities”—an official designation—whether they are native-born descendants of slaves or walked…
Read more »Is Outsourcing Trade – Or Dispossession?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|04 March, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: why should we erect tariff in us for outsourcing
In a recent cover story Business Week magazine observed that economists haven’t begun to fathom the implications of outsourcing for the U.S. economy. Economists don’t understand globalism because they don’t think about it. They simply assume globalism to be the beneficial workings of free trade. Most economists take for granted that the benefits of free trade offset its costs. For…
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