Monday, January 27, 2003

Foxes, henhouses and Employees as Regulators Employees as Regulators. Oversight of public companies should be entrusted to a group with a substantial interest in a given company's long-term survival: its employees. By Moshe Adler. [New York Times: Opinion] Prefered option: keep the foxes away from the henhouse. Option 2: At least rotate the foxes guarding the henhouse. 9:42:56 AM    comment []  trackback []

Making recycling pay Dust Off Those Recycling Bins. A New Jersey company has improved the likelihood that New York City's recycling program will return. [New York Times: Opinion] The company, Hugo Neu, has offered to pay the city more than $5 a ton for its recyclable plastics and metal; the next-best bid asked the city to pay more than $67 a ton to remove the recyclables. That $72/ton gap is wide enough to be very interesting. What accounts for such a significant pricing difference? 9:38:21 AM    comment []  trackback []

Making Prices Work For The Environment Making Prices Work For The Environment - Environmental Fiscal Reform in Europe (Austria), Fiscal Reform Campaign, December 17th, 2002 The very well attended conference with experts from many different European Countries gave an overview of the development of 'green taxes' and the dismantling of environmentally counterproductive subsidies at EU-level and in some selected countries. The conference stressed environmental fiscal reform because this covers taxes, subsidies and other environmental incentives. Article [Source: Subsidy Watch] 9:22:29 AM    comment []  trackback []

Iraq + al Qaeda Clear Ties of Terror. An Al Qaeda affiliate in Iraq has provided a haven for Osama bin Laden followers exfiltrating from Afghanistan.... American 'counterterrorism officials' are still in angry denial about the pattern they refused to see that connects Qaeda terrorists in hiding with Iraqi terrorists in power. But even the Bush administration's most reluctant warrior has come to accept the validity of the link that embattled Kurds have been trying to warn us of since Sept. 11: Saddam and the followers of bin Laden are bedfellows. [New York Times: Opinion: William Safire] Not that this is anything new: Debka has been reporting on this link for many months. It seems only the CIA and the anti-war movement [talk about strange bedfellows!] deny it. 6:28:47 AM    comment []  trackback []