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Market failure
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November 2026
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Ethics & corporate governance10 min readMisleading advertising breaks markets, not only ethics
For an owner or marketing lead signing off a claim before it goes out. "It is unethical" tends to lose the argument in a meeting, while Heath's case goes to the reason profit is allowed at all. Includes the Volkswagen case as the US Department of Justice described it, and a four-question test.
Corporate finance11 min readThe 2008 crisis: markets, regulation or politics?
For a finance director, owner or finance student who is asked whose fault 2008 was. Three sources weigh the causes differently and none wins, but they overlap on thin capital, short-term funding and over-trusted credit ratings.