I find your comments humorous. You have so convinced yourself of your own logic and objective reasoning skills that if you saw a woman and child dismembered in front of your very eyes you would likely take great pride in your ability to communicate what you saw dispassionately, devoid of any taint of ‘judgementalism’ which might suggest that you view the acts described as being morally degenerate. As an academic for many years, I can state with confidence that I have never met a more biased, dogmatic, and intolerant group of people than my peers in “academia”–individuals who are much more concerned with promoting a liberal agenda than with objective scientific findings. I suggest that you stick your head in a bucket of ice water for 30 minutes and see if that helps to restart your system–one obviously corroded by your axiomatic belief in your own intellectual and moral superiority.

Of course, this combination discredits the author and the publisher. I like FEE…after all, I’m here reading it…and I am again disappointed by this regular pattern in biased analysis and reporting I see everywhere I look. No matter the side they are on, people often get so clung to their side that they shoot themselves in their firmly-rooted foot by drifting beyond the deep lake of critical thought and onto the thin ice of normative pontificating.

I’ll try again to muster the patience to pluck a few nuggets of sound economic reasoning out of this article…I know they are in there somewhere. After I remove them from the rest of the muck, I’ll clean them off to see how they help me understand the impact of the legislation.

I could copy/paste the above feedback to most of what I come across outside of academic journals. I guess I post it here because here is one place I want to respect and to learn from.

There must be strict liability for incompetence at the CEO & CFO level. If CxO\’s can even attempt to say with a straight face that they\’re not liable for malfeasance because they \"didn\’t know\" what was happening in their companies, then there is no hope for large public companies.