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Spectrum, Volume 19, Number 6
Get PDFHighlights include: Mock accident hosted to rise awareness of drunk driving -- Urban Latino magazine founder visits SHU -- Beautification day scheduled to clean up ad unify SHU -- Computer issues causing backup in the printing lab -- All Saint\u27s day and Hallow\u27s Eve have intricate histories -- Men\u27s soccer falls 1-7 to Fairleigh Dickinson -- Woman\u27s rugby take second place title in championship -- Pioneers trample Iona 49-
Spectrum, Volume 19, Number 6
Get PDFHighlights include: Mock accident hosted to rise awareness of drunk driving -- Urban Latino magazine founder visits SHU -- Beautification day scheduled to clean up ad unify SHU -- Computer issues causing backup in the printing lab -- All Saint\u27s day and Hallow\u27s Eve have intricate histories -- Men\u27s soccer falls 1-7 to Fairleigh Dickinson -- Woman\u27s rugby take second place title in championship -- Pioneers trample Iona 49-
Democratizing Startups
Get PDFPresident Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS Act”) of 2012 into law to “help entrepreneurs raise the capital they need to put Americans back to work and create an economy that’s built to last.” The goal is to “democratize startups” by making capital available to diverse entrepreneurs in new geographies. Yet the net effect of securities regulations and market conditions is the opposite. Startup companies are encouraged to stay private so capital is consolidating in large, mature firms instead of recycling into new startups. Evidence of consolidation is that once-rare “Unicorns” (billion-dollar startups) now number at least 170. More money is going into huge private companies, yet total venture capital investment is flat, so less is going to new startups. This could stall out the innovation economy. Democratizing startups requires safe-harbor exemptions from securities regulations for both original issuance and resale of stock, but securities regulations do not permit resale on exchanges. This Article proposes “Rule 144B,” a regulatory provision that could be enacted without an act of Congress, to permit transparent web-based venture exchanges with fraud-prevention intermediaries termed “independent analysts.” This Article answers the SEC’s call for rulemaking comments and informs Congress’s new work on JOBS Act 2.0
Spartan Daily, September 18, 1981
Get PDFVolume 77, Issue 13https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6788/thumbnail.jp
Why Legalized Insider Trading Would Be a Disaster
Get PDFAlthough insider trading is illegal, a stubborn minority still defends it as an efficient means of compensating executives and spurring innovation. However, this minority assumes that legal insider trading would be constrained by the personal wealth of the insiders so that the scope of insider trading would rarely or never be so large as to cause outsiders to stop trading in affected stocks. This Note argues that there would be no such constraint because insiders could obtain outside financing to fully exploit their informational advantage. Outsiders would flee the public stock markets, which would drastically shrink or disappear. The prospect of huge trading profits would induce managers to change many decisions, often to the detriment of the firm, in ways that would be virtually impossible for corporate monitors to detect. Accordingly, the case of legalizing insider trading is insupportable
The Cowl - v.80 - n.22 - Apr 14, 2016
Get PDFThe Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 80 - No. 22 - April 14, 2016. 24 pages
Boden Lecture: Of Chameleons and ESG
Get PDFEver since the rise of the great corporations in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, commenters have debated whether firms should be run
solely to benefit investors, or whether instead they should be run to benefit
society as a whole. Both sides have claimed their preferred policies are
necessary to maintain a capitalist system of private enterprise distinct from
state institutions. What we can learn from the current iteration of the debate—
now rebranded as “environmental, social, governance” or “ESG” investing—
is that efforts to disentangle corporate governance from the regulatory state
are futile; governmental regulation has an inevitable role in structuring the
corporate form
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