Amazon’s workplace culture is an Orwellian edifice filled with sabotage, subterfuge and fear As a technology and retail giant and forebear to the internet’s gilded age, Amazon was founded on the marriage of relentless technological innovation to volume driven discount...

The American medical system is perhaps the largest, "free-market" fraud being perpetrated on an otherwise, unassuming populace. This parasitic model continues to undermine our business competitiveness. If I described a market with little to no transparency in its...

America continues to slog through the same path as our Roman ancestors, as it allows institutional forces from within to destroy what forces from without could not destroy Fraud takes many forms, oftentimes it is disguised and deeply embedded within the cultural,...

Inside the Mind of a Pathological Narcissist, an Emotional Fraudster Hey. Recognize me? I am the person who rebuilt your self-esteem, the one who became your soul mate. We were so compatible, you and I, we seemingly had everything in common. We feasted, entertained,...

The overwhelming amount of fraud occurring and uncovered in South Florida, including mortgage, banking, securities, and regulatory fraud demands at least a cursory analysis of the personalities and behavior that typify these fraudsters. Stanford, Rothstein, Freeman,...

Jobs: 1998, Commerce: 1999, Housing: 2002, Tourism, 2005, Mood: 2003. Those are the years to which the Great Recession has propelled South Florida’s economy. In a series entitled Economic Time Travel, The Miami Herald, here, and here, recently provided evidence of the...