The Los Angeles Times Addresses New SEC Disclosure Requirements To Thwart Fund-Raising By Global
(Washington, D.C.): The front page of the Business Section of the 14 May editions of the Los Angeles Times featured...
Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Lehman’s Analyst Melcher Breaks The News For The Markets: China Must Clean Up Its Act — or Search Elsewhere For Much-Needed Capital
(Washington, D.C.): In his first Lehman Brothers column to fund managers world- wide, Mark Melcher, the respected political and economic...
Their Finest Hour’: Financial Times Describes Emerging Forces in Global Finance and National Security/Human Rights Nexus
(Washington, D.C.): In a truly remarkable forty-eight hour period, the process by which foreign registrants access the vast, globally-dominant U.S....
U.S. Religious Freedom Commission Urges President Bush to Rule on Chinese Sovereign Bond Offerings
(Washington, D.C.): President George W. Bush used the recent annual dinner of the American Jewish Committee on religious freedom to...
S.E.C. Adopts Sweeping Changes to Increase Transparency re: Potential Foreign Bad Actors’ in U.S. Capital Markets
(Washington, D.C.): In a long-overdue and stunning development, the Acting Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has advised Congress...
Newsroom Online Sets Parameters For Global Debate On Efficacy Of Capital Markets Sanctions
(Washington, D.C.): A subtle, yet significant shift has taken place with respect to the Casey Institute's five-year initiative to alert...
Defense Fire Sale Redux
(Washington, D.C.): A few weeks ago, the Center called attention to the proposed sale of a critical part of the...
Message to China: The Appeasement is Over
(Washington, D.C.): In his meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Qian Qichen at the White House yesterday, President Bush faced a...
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
(Washington, D.C.): It is a singularly disturbing thought: Could your dinner be your downfall? Daily, headlines from Europe scream about...
A Letter to the President
President George W. BushThe White HouseWashington, D.C. 20500 Dear Mr. President: I am writing to express my strong support for...
California Treasurer Expands Social Investing’ to Include Freedom-Based, Financially Prudent Principles
(Washington, D.C.): A groundbreaking front page story in the Sunday New York Times of 11 February appeared under the headline...
Will The Hanssen Arrest Prompt The Bush Team to Correct Clinton-Era Inattention to Security?
(Washington, D.C.): The arrest of FBI counter-intelligence (CI) agent Robert Hanssen on espionage charges yesterday is not only a reminder,...
Will Bush Team End the Ongoing Defense Fire Sale’?
(Washington, D.C.): This afternoon, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) will meet to consider the proposed...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review scorches State’s public pension system over portfolio’s global bad actors’
Last Sunday's edition of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ran a blockbuster expose of the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System -- "one...
Bloomberg Reports Beijing’s Obfuscation Strategy Concerning Intensifying Sinopec-Iran/ILSA Controversy
(Washington, D.C.): On 19 January, the Bloomberg wire ran a news item that should be of more than passing interest...
Sinopec-Iran Deal Facing Increased Scrutiny: Capital Markets Dimension Could Spell Trouble For Wall Street
(Washington, D.C.): Over the past several days, mounting anger is being expressed in the United States -- notably by the...