Can human behavior be accurately predicted, or is it too complex and nuanced to quantify and discern through modeling? Predictive modeling, the process by which a model is created or chosen to try to best predict the probability of an outcome, has lost credibility as...

Miami-Dade County's Jackson Memorial Hospital is Adrift in a Sea of Incompetent Executive Management The utter contempt that Jackson Memorial Hospital’s managing board, the Public Health Trust, and the Miami-Dade County Commission, have displayed for the residents of...

Post-Industrial Japan’s Developing Caste and Generational Inequality are Strangling Younger Workers In an ominous warning to other, post-industrial developed economies, Japan seems mired in an economic straitjacket decades in the making. A majority of its younger...

Our national, economic betrayal is merely a symptom of much larger, personal betrayal As the current year fades and the new year begins, a trend continues to emerge in our society that is every bit as damaging as the economic fraud that has nearly plunged our country...

Current financial reporting practices often produce fictional and sometimes aberrant statements that are misleading if not outright fraudulent.  For example, consolidated financial statements are traps for the unwary, hiding and masking transactions through Byzantine...

In a sign that the looming pension battles continue unabated, the New York Times reported, here, that the Securities and Exchange Commission accused the State of New Jersey of securities fraud and claimed that it had not been properly funding public worker’s pensions,...