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Instructor Contact Information

Requirements

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Current Ethical Problems

The Crisis of the American Economy-Problems of the Present and Future

 

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The K-wave

Deflation Cycle

Stock Market Bubble

The Real Estate Bubble

Easy Money The Great Reflation

Debt 1

Debt 2

Debt 3

Debt 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEPTEMBER

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The Article Thinking Ethically

Thinking Ethically Homework 1

Thinking Ethically Homework 2

Ethical Reasoning

Ethical Check List

Ethical Reasoning Homework

 

 

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The Article Ethics in Business: Theory and Practice

Ethics in Business: Theory and Practice Homework 1

Ethics in Business: Theory and Practice Homework 2

Ethics in Business: Theory and Practice Homework 3

Class Notes

 

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WalMart 1

The Pull System

Homework

 

 

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WalMart 2 and 3

Muscling Manufacturers

Class Notes

Homework

 

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WalMart 4

Retail Power

Class Notes

Homework

 

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WalMart 5

The Demise of American Manufacturing

Homework

Class Notes

Class Notes

 

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Wal-Mart and its Employees

Wal-Mart and its Employees

Class Notes

Class Notes- Globalization Stages

Facts and Values

 

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Theories of Justice

Fairness-Rawls

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The Debate That Wasn't"

CAFTA Rhymes with NAFTA

"If US-dominated CAFTA goes into effect, deaths will shoot through the roof..."

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Decline of Manufacturing

Class Notes - Labor

Class Notes - Ethical Issues

 

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Declining Living Standards

Class Notes

 

 

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Consumer Debt

"Hotel Debt California"

"Senators Portray Bankruptcy Bill As Unfair"

Class Notes

Class Notes

 

 

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"Debtor Nation at Red Alert"

"Will Central Banks Ever Say No to America?"

"The Great Wealth Deception"

Class Notes

 

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OCTOBER

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EXAM 1

 

 

 

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Wall Street

The Characters in Wall Street

Ethical Isues in Wall Street

 

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Speculating vs. Investing

 

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Speculators Are Heroes

 

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No Class

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Wall Street

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Wall Street

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Wall Street

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The Real Reason for the Global Financial Crisis…the Story No One’s Talking About.

 

Credit Default Swaps: A $50 Trillion Problem

 

 

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How Wall Street Bankers Helped Create the Current Credit Crisis

 

 

How Complex Securities, Wall Street Protectionism and Myopic Regulation Caused a Near-Meltdown of the U.S. Banking System.

 

 

           

 

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Foreign Bondholders - and not the U.S. Mortgage Market - Drove the Fannie/Freddie Bailout

 

Fed Steps in and Bails Out AIG to the Tune of $85 Billion in Taxpayer Funds

 

The Credit Crisis and the Real Story Behind the Collapse of AIG

 

 

 

 

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Dear Hank: Here’s How to End the Credit Crisis at No Cost to Taxpayers.

 

 

 

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Heads They Win, Tails You Lose: Why the Bailout Plan Will Fail U.S. Taxpayers.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Largest Robbery of the 21st Century – The Truth Behind All These Bailouts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOVEMBER

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Credit Crisis Update: An Inside Look at the Commercial Paper Debacle.

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Inside the Credit Crisis: How the Fed’s Efforts to Lower the Fed Funds Rate May Leave it Powerless to Stop the Financial Meltdown.

 

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How U.S. Missteps Triggered a Spiral of Worldwide Margin Calls and Deepened the Financial Crisis

 

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The Bailout Will Not Work

 

Corporate Bonuses

 

Study of Depression;  Mortgage Moratorium Raises Interest Rates

 

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Financial Meltdown 101

 

The Shallowest Generation

 

Why Washington Cannot Prevent a Depression

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Class Notes

 

Credit Crisis

 

Sub-Prime Crisis

 

Sub-Prime Crisis 2

 

Bailout

 

Solutions

 

 

The Crash Course

 

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Test 2

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Test 2

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The Crash Course

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No Class

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No Class

 

 

 

The Crash Course

 

 

 

 

A Crude Awakening

Peak Oil Primer

Peak Oil

Peak Oil Notes

Oil Political Consequences

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Crude Awakening

Kunstler

Peak Oil

Easter Island

Easter Island Parallels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DECEMBER

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The Ethics of Biofuels

Ethanol

Biofuels

 

 

 

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The Ethical Challenge of Energy

(pp. 7-10, 35-39)

 

The Sustainable Economy

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Sustainable Growth:  An Impossibility Theorem

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Peak Agriculture

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Peak Agriculture

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Leopold, The Land Ethic

Leopold Class Notes

 

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Final Study Guide

 

Final 8-10:30

 

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