Firing offense
(Washington, D.C.): Harvey Pitt's days as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission seem numbered. It now appears that, once...
Economic Security Policy
The Nexus Between ‘Corporate Accountability’ and the War On Terror
(Washington, D.C.): Yesterday's Wall Street Journal featured an important op.ed. by columnist Al Hunt highlighting an important new front in...
Wall Street’s ‘Poisoned Apples’
(Washington, D.C.): In recent weeks, government officials, business leaders and market analysts have assured shell-shocked American investors that plummeting indexes...
Step Right Up: After Iran, Who Will Be Next To Float a Sovereign Bond To International Investors? Iraq?
(Washington, D.C.): After more than two years of preparation, Iran is finally slated to make its first foray in the...
Sen. Thompson Seeks Mandate for Intelligence Community To Scrutinize Foreign Proliferators in U.S. Capital Markets
(Washington, D.C.): In the next few days, the U.S. Senate is expected to approve legislation requiring the U.S. intelligence community...
Global Investors Poised to Underwrite Terrorism: Iran returns to the Markets with 500 Million Eurobond; Will U.S. Buy In?
(Washington, D.C.): As the Casey Institute warned in its Perspective of July 14, 2000, Iran has now formally embarked on...
The Buck Stops Here: Prestigious Far Eastern Economic Review Follows Terrorist Money To U.S. Capital Markets
(Washington, D.C.): In the war against terrorism, the Bush Administration has properly announced its determination to cut off the funding...
The Saudi ‘Deus ex Machiavelli‘
(Washington, D.C.): On occasion, theatrical productions of the ancient Greeks would end with a god being lowered onto the stage...
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...
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...
Insult to Injury: Sinopec’s Iranian Deal Constitutes Apparent I.L.S.A. Violation
(Washington, D.C.): Last week, Sinopec the Chinese state-owned energy company whose listing on the New York Stock Exchange last October...
Casey Chair Robinson Addresses Nation’s Women Legislators on Protecting State Public Portfolios from Fund-Raising Efforts by Global Bad Actors’
(Washington, D.C.): Following remarks by Congressmen Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) and David Vitter (R-LA) at a plenary breakfast in New Orleans...
Protecting state public portfolios from fundraising by global “bad actors”
Remarks of Hon. Roger W. Robinson, Jr. Before the National Foundation for Women Legislators The Ritz Carlton Hotel -- New...
Critical Mass: Financial Times Affirms Rise of Capital Markets as Foreign Policy Leverage
(Washington, D.C.): One of the most prestigious financial newspapers in the world reported today that, with passage last week by...
Thompson-Torricelli: Security-Minded Legislation to Contend with 21st Century Threats
(Washington, D.C.): In a bit of Freudian repartee at the expense of Secretary of State Albright, President Clinton recently told...
Leveraging US capital markets to advance peace in Sudan
Testimony of Roger W. Robinson Jr., Chairman of the William J. Casey Institute of the Center for Security Policy and...