In addition, Delaware offers a level of certainty and stability: the state's constitution requires a two-thirds vote of both legislative houses to change its corporations statutes. Delaware also has a specialized court that is staffed by lawyers from the corporate bar, and its highest court has...
Within 10 days of the report's release, both houses of Congress passed bills prohibiting AID from spending money on export processing zones, from funding projects that violate internationally recognized workers' rights, and from inducing companies to move offshore. Within two months the acting direct...
Cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo provide the raw material for a complex network of trading houses and smelters. These mines employ children in dangerous jobs and degrade the natural landscape. Battery component manufacturers in Asia purchase the refined cobalt, which ends up in ...
but corporations have to be able to protect their private and competitive information in some manner. Corporations can’t be competitive if every document that might be picked up in some legal action is open for the world to see. If “personal privacy” is not the best mechanism for that, ...
What it can mean is foreclosure market will be dead for a long time, because bargain hunters will be spooked by the legal uncertainty. In reality it would look like the whole country will be plagued by haunted houses that no one can sell, buy, move into, bulldoze to the ground and not...
Are you really buying books based purely on the components? The base physical costs? (If that’s true, why don’t you just go buy a box of bricks or something.) Isn’t art weirder than that? Doesn’t art — whether it’s art versus ar...
In 2017, the Chinese government put forward the basic position that “houses are used for living, not for speculation”, and in July 2019, China’s central government once again reiterated that it would not use real estate as a short-term means of stimulating the economy, implying that real...