Madoff: Investment Fund, or Virtual Reality Game?
The Madoff scandal may be truly unique--more alike online gamers than investment management.
What’s the Market’s T/E Ratio Lately?
Financial and commercial markets depend not just on forecasts, but on trust.
LL Bean: Urban Myth or Rural Superstition?
Trusting people may be the best way to make them trustworthy; and it's a business model.
January Carnival of Trust is Up
January 2009 Carnival of Trust
How Not to Regulate Untrustworthy Industries
Regulation by permanent structural changes is vastly more costly than audit, enforcmement and serious sanctions
From Mistrust to Cynicism to Corruption
The Madoff tale was already told by Mark Twain and Clint Eastwood--the path from failed trust to corruption.
Keep Your Damn Receipt!
Why do they give out receipts for every petty purchase these days?
Who You Gonna Trust–Your Own Eyes, or Your Grandparents?
Some form of trust may be socially inherited; but that's only part of the picture
Trusting and Trustworthiness: The Chicken or the Egg?
Which comes first--trusting, or being trustworthy?
The Curious Case of Curiosity in Selling
It may be that simple curiosity is the single biggest success factor in sales--if you think about it rightly.