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Sadly, nowadays, things as disparate as highly paid executives, the Enron and Parmalat scandals, contested mergers and acquisitions, stock market volatility, "junk bonds," and asset-price bubbles are all lumped together under the snide heading "cowboy capitalism."
And while former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, Wilders, Le Pen, and their peers continue to pose as plucky anti-establishment underdogs, this conceit is wearing thin, owing to their own success – and, in UKIP’s case, to financial
scandals.
The
scandals
surrounding the top aides to Lee – nicknamed “the Bulldozer” from his career as a construction industry executive – have complicated matters for the ruling Saenuri Party’s candidate, Park Geun-hye, and buoyed the hopes of her leftist rival, Moon Jae-in of the Democratic United Party.
Russian Prime Minister and SVR Director Mikhail Fradkov’s son, Petr, was more in the generational mold, just 29 when he became a deputy chairman of Vnesheconombank – the bank now associated with the Trump administration’s ongoing
scandals.
America has shown itself to be second to none in practicing cronyism, first with its rotten corporate
scandals
of recent years, and now in Iraq.
But the rolling series of
scandals
surrounding global megabanks makes it difficult for anyone to keep a straight face when executives insist that our largest banks must maintain their current scale and scope.
Moreover, corruption
scandals
have erupted far beyond South Africa, including in Brazil and South Korea, yet the links between business and government across the world remain complex, close, and opaque.
MOSCOW – Email
scandals
have plagued Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party nominee for US president, throughout her campaign.
Nonetheless, given Russia’s poor reputation in the US, the latest email
scandals
may well hurt Clinton less than they hurt Trump – whose subsequent appeal to Russia to find 30,000 emails missing from Clinton’s tenure at the State Department has not done him any favors.
But that is precisely the point: so many of the men caught up in sex-tinged
scandals
of late have exposed themselves – sometimes literally – through their own willing embrace of text messages, Twitter, and other indiscreet media.
The Arthur Anderson, Enron, and WorldCom
scandals
didn't emerge out of thin air, but had their origins in the mid-1990s, when the US Treasury actually intervened to stop attempts by the supposedly independent accounting standards board to improve matters.
Will the world continue to finance this deficit willingly, to put its money into a country with such a demonstrated lack of competence in macroeconomic management (to say nothing of the corporate, banking, and accounting scandals)?
In fact, languishing economic growth, legal scandals, and the absence of long-term goals were leading Italy toward a precipitous decline.
Here a hopeful sign in today’s political travails is found in the potent role played by Southeast Asia’s once tame press in reporting corruption
scandals.
Brazil’s government has been unwilling or unable to cut back its bloated public sector, has been mired in vast corruption scandals, and yet its president Dilma Rousseff continues to evince a fondness for just the sort of state-led capitalism that leads to exactly these problems.
Since the start of this year, it has implicated several members of President Otto Pérez Molina’s cabinet, as well as the president himself, in major corruption
scandals.
Moreover, for the realists, America’s defiant behavior toward its oldest and most faithful allies – reflected in the recent surveillance
scandals
implicating the National Security Agency – has discredited the very idea of a “community of values.”
But consider this: None of the risks highlighted in the WEF report caused the recent spike in debt crises or the wave of
scandals
that engulfed – just in the last year – Volkswagen, Toshiba, Valeant, and FIFA.
Extensive and continuing
scandals
in Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Panama, and parts of Asia are related to payoffs from drug cartels and other distributors of illegal drugs.
Corruption
scandals
have in fact strengthened the deregulation movements in both South Korea and Japan.
In Argentina, it took a 30% inflation rate, massive corruption scandals, and restrictions on foreign-currency purchases to bring about a slim majority for the center-right Mauricio Macri in the recent presidential election.
Add to that corruption
scandals
involving Bachelet’s son and weaknesses in the ruling center-left coalition, and the center right’s return to power in the 2017 presidential election seems increasingly likely.
To be sure, massive corruption
scandals
have also severely eroded Rousseff’s standing, and are the key reason why she is now facing impeachment proceedings.
Nobody I know thinks she is likely to stumble so badly; still, the Clintons are known to be accident-prone, and they have been full of surprises –
scandals
and scandalettes – since they first appeared on the national scene a quarter-century ago.
Given this, it seems clear that Bolsonaro’s rise is the direct result of Brazil’s particular circumstances, which include a devastating economic recession and revelations of massive corruption
scandals
that have tainted the PT and the country’s entire political class.
As former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has indicated, it may not be a realistic threat, but it has helped Bolsonaro mobilize voters who were already angry with the PT – and the political establishment as a whole – for its involvement in massive corruption
scandals.
Indeed, corruption
scandals
have been a fixture on the region’s landscape since time immemorial.
Their currencies have tumbled, while corruption
scandals
and other political difficulties have overwhelmed the economic narrative in places like Brazil and Turkey.
Only three months ago, Kan was chosen as the DPJ’s top leader to restore its public image, which had been severely tarnished by political-financing
scandals
involving his predecessor as prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, and a separate scandal involving Ozawa.
America exported its culture of corporate irresponsibility – non-transparent stock options, which encourage the bad accounting that has played a role in this debacle, just as it did in the Enron and Worldcom
scandals
a few years ago.
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