This is a sad day for the US government, and sadder still for all of us as taxpayers. Taxpayers who have paid for greed, screwups, and general indeptitude by parties who have access to our tax dollars.

We’ve commented here (see prior posts #1 and #2) on the plight of the former CEO of Brocade Communications Systems, Gregory Reyes, and his journey through the federal justice system. He’s now the first CEO convicted by a jury of...

The other shoes are dropping in China…boom, boom, boom…the government of China in the form of the State Administration for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine (whew!) or AQSIQ has yanked the licenses of 600+ Chinese...

December 27, 2007 Update on Commentary (see below, December 10 post by this writer. Just before Christmas, CEO Gregory Reyes received his gift for the season -- the federal cour postponed his sentencing ("indefinitely, says the...

We include this document in Accountability Central because of the importance of Dr. King's comments to his fellow clergy leaders in the south...and everywhere in the USA. His words ring true and call out to our conscience 44...

On CEO Compensation and Public Response to Those Egregious Pay Packages... The compensation advisory industry experienced real growth and penetration of corporate suites when a fellow named Graef Crystal was on the consulting...

Oh, we love this Apple-Microsoft and PC World marketing competition. The first computers we bought for our business were expensive IBM "5100" minis -- at $8,000 (then) or more per processor with a whopping 64-k RAM. Two...

We Are Not Always Happy When CEOs are Sentenced... We don't think anyone likes to see someone else go to jail for "white collar" crimes. "There but for grace...go I..." we might be thinking when we read about these cases.

An interesting story from Ireland...worthy of reading by USA boards and executives...more on what's heading this way...and what is now global in scope...

A moment here for jingo-ism. Free and fair trade is good for everyone -- may the best products make it to the marketplace, at the best prices. Many more Americans are able to enjoy the good life -- we are a nation of passionate,...