Tuesday, September 30, 2008

FDIC plans to insure more of your money.

The FDCI has federally insured the deposits to banks of up to $100,000 for quite some time now. Considering the financial turmoil the agency has asked congress to give a emergency power to hike the insurance for deposits. The idea around this decision is in hopes to increase the confidence in the financial system for all investors.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080930/meltdown_deposit_insurance.html

Monday, September 22, 2008

Cheaper but Deadly

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24386778-2703,00.html

The Chinese Government has been caught red handed again. It seems to be more and more frequent that these scandals involve cheaper means of production through harmful chemicals. This week, milk used in baby formulas has been found to be watered down with substitution of a chemical called 'melamine' which supposedly enhances the appearance of overall proteins and nutrition of the food.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Short-Term Gain with Long-Term Costs

http://www.businessethics.ca/news.html

Here is an article that evaluates how ethics impacts the global economy. This article draws ties to unethical greed with aspects to economic down turns, such as the one we are currently experiencing.

Friday, September 19, 2008

managing ethics in the workplace http://www.managementhelp.org/ethics/ethics.htm

this site is to help people manage ethics in the workplace and the problems that can occur. It also discusses social responsibility and how it ties in with business ethics.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What will happen if AIG fails?

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1841699,00.html

A huge question in the business world right now is "What will the consequences be if AIG fails?" and the only answer they can come up with is "chaos". This article shows how no one really understood the serious problems AIG was having until this past week, and no one realized how much was building up. So, the government stepped in.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Negligent Reporting

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_10411094

Here is a article about how the news media fails to investigate facts before making statements to the public.