A blog concerning accountability By Hank Boerner, Chairman of Governance & Accountability Institute


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They Don’t Get It! They Don’t Get It! Get It? They Don’t... Get It!; Got it? THEY don’t get it!

March 18, 2009

The headlines and the story lines and the snappy quotes and the overall gist of the stories and drumbeats of stories that we are reading and hearing and seeing these days have a running (and very disturbing) theme: The leaders...[more]

Numbers – They Do Add Up – And The Federal Government’s Treasury Is Still Putting Big Bailout

February 18, 2009

What ever happened to the fabled free market of these United States of America? What ever is left of it is in free fall these days. What happened to our trumpeting of fiscal conservatism? (Neither political party now has a grip...[more]

Today’s Fairy Tales: And With A Wave Of The Prince’s Magic Wand, Poof! The Corporate Jets Turn Into Pumpkins

February 06, 2009

Once Upon a Time…you remember, don’t you, that timeless and universal fairy tale story opening from your childhood days? In a far-away land…Gathered ‘round the grown up reader, we kids would look up at the big open book with all...[more]

Welcome The New Era Of Responsibility! And Accountability…

January 20, 2009

President Barack Obama’s inaugural pageant was quite something, wasn’t it? The long-awaited official [peaceful] turnover of the reins of government occurred at precisely 12:00 noon, and President George W. Bush, #43 was now a...[more]

The Journey To Washington: The New President And VP; Take The Train To The Start Of A New Era

January 18, 2009

What shall we call this? We had the Square Deal for the Common Man (Teddy Roosevelt), and our grandparents welcomed the New Deal in the depths of the Great Depression (Franklin Roosevelt) and cheered the New Frontier of John...[more]

Bam! Bam! Birds And Jet Engines Don’t Mix – Hero Pilot Lands Airbus Passengers In New York’s Hudson River

January 17, 2009

It was a cold winter day in New York when passengers boarded US Airways Flight 1549 bound for Charlotte, North Carolina. Just after takeoff from LaGuardia and flying to the northwest, on a route skirting Manhattan Island, the...[more]

SEC: An Agency in Transition … To What?

January 07, 2009

As the calendar pages turn quickly toward January 20, 2009, when the reign of the new Obama Administration will begin, many eyes are focused on what happens now at the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). By federal...[more]

Madoff Madness: If It’s Too Good To Be True…

December 28, 2008

If it’s too good to be true…maybe it isn’t. Part of the wholesale abandonment of risk management in the current financial environment is ignoring of risk, either clearly evident risk or what should be have a healthy sense of...[more]

Big 3 Auto Industry Bailout Drama Continues

December 27, 2008

What the 110th US Congress could not or would not do in its last days, the good old Bush White House, in its own dwindling away and winding-down days, got done. Two of America’s remaining Big 3 auto companies will get almost $14...[more]

Yankee Money and City Money and Taxpayer Money and Fan Money…

December 23, 2008

Great ball stadiums bring great hopes to the civic interests, and the home teams playing are good, great hope for the loyal fans. Baseball is the great American pastime. (So is football, basketball, hockey, etc. – privately...[more]

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