Understanding the crisis involves understanding the past. At the beginning chapter of the book‚ Mason tells stories of the bankruptcy of Lehmans‚ and the collapse of AIG. AIG was making about 15 per cent of its profits from insuring financial speculation‚ and its shares were trading at a spectacular 37 times of its earnings by September 2000. To achieve this‚ AIG began to insure a large chunk of the high-risk speculation. They also had been faked to fool the auditors and had taken its customer’s
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Enron #1. Based on what you read in this chapter‚ summarize in one page or less how you would explain Enron’s ethical meltdown. The first thought in this case is to define Ethics. A person with ethics is a person who has wholesome morals. It directly reflects your beliefs in your actions. The you use to decide what your conduct should be. (Dessler‚ 2011) The second thought in this case is to define morals. Morals are the right way of behaving or acting in different situations. Being able
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Banking Industry Meltdown: The Ethical and Financial Risks of Derivatives Steven Young Strayer University Dr. Mary Tranquillo Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making and Cases November 29‚ 2012 Determine which moral philosophy (as discussed in chapter 6) is most applicable to an understanding of the banking industry meltdown Moral philosophy in business is hard to classify‚ especially in today’s economic times where there are government bailouts‚ loss of paying jobs‚ home foreclosures
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Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown On April 26‚ 1986‚ the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. The explosion released radioactive particles into the atmosphere which drifted across most of Europe. The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind. Two of the Chernobyl plant workers died on the night of the accident‚ they received high doses from external gamma radiation. More people died a few weeks later due to radiation poisoning
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Inside Job Summary Inside Job is a documentary by Charles Ferguson‚ about the causes of the global financial crisis and revealed what was going on inside the U.S. financial industry during the first decade of the 21st century. The movie highlights the effects of a series of causes beginning in the Regan Administration. These causes most prominently include deregulation that allowed excessive and reckless actions in finance‚ fraud‚ and conflicts of interest. Deregulation allowed the financial
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director of Inside Job‚ the progressive deregulation of the financial sector since the 1980s gave rise to an increasingly criminal industry. In fact‚ many executives and leaders that were involved in this meltdown refused to answer questions‚ and some refused to interview for the documentary all together. The financial crisis of 2008 left many of us with many unanswered questions wondering how the most powerful nation in the world ended up with a destructed economy. The documentary Inside Job hunts
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The Psychological Meltdown of Lady Macbeth In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth‚ Shakespeare challenges the idea of male dominancy. Is Macbeth really in control of his own actions‚ or is he being manipulated by the women around him? Maybe Macbeth would never be king if the witches had not suggested it. Duncan could have lived a full life if it were not for Lady Macbeth. Shakespeare gives women a sort of power over him. In Lady Macbeth’s case‚ the very power that drives her insane. By giving powerful women
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Case- Inside Intel Inside MKT 460 Submitted to Mr Bobby Hajjaj Introduction Intel has become one of the world ’s most recognizable computer brands following its long-running Intel Inside campaign‚ which started in 1991. Intel‚ initially a semiconductor-maker company‚ is based in Santa Clara‚ California. The five-note jingle was introduced the following year for its tenth anniversary which was heard around the world. It is one of the most powerful brands in the corporate world. It started
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Countrywide Financial: The Subprime Meltdown Briarcliffe Online Live Chat 1 Unit Three Ramon Geronimo BA-338-2-SUM1-BRI12 Business Ethics Prof. Raymond Manginell June 1‚ 2012 Abstract 1. Are subprime loans an unethical financial instrument‚ or are they ethical but misused in a way that created ethical issues? 2. Discuss the ethical issues that caused the downfall of Countrywide Financial. 3. How should Bank of America
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answer‚ ’Well‚ there’s this swell Spanish film about a quadriplegic guy who’s fighting for the fight to die‚’ chances are the next words you’ll hear are‚ ’What else?’ Such antipathy characterized at least the initial North American response to The Sea Inside‚ a multiple prize-winning‚ box-office hit in Spain and elsewhere in Europe. The film was no doubt aided overseas by greater familiarity with its subject‚ as a biopic concerning Ramón Sampedro‚ whose battle during the 1990’s to be able to choose a
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