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Highlighted Book for March, 2013
Corporate Sex
Corporate Sex is a tale of liaisons between men and women, cash-rich corporations and asset-rich corporations, and other entities subject to great and burning passions.
This is not nearly a work of pornography. There are a couple of scenes which involve playfulness fore what might or might not happen, but they are there for good literary reasons, reasons related to the basic goal of this book to show the moral state of certain sub-populations in the United States, circa 1995. At that time, though there were some sociopathic characters on Wall St. and in Washington, that type was powerful but not quite so dominant as in more recent years. I’ve wondered recently if that was true mostly because the legal and political and economic environments didn’t encourage sociopathic behavior.
In the 1980s, I worked in two insurance consulting operations and both discouraged, for example, corporations forming offshore insurance companies to even consider tax issues, let alone outright tax-free hording, when making decisions about setting up those companies or for ongoing operations. Our advice didn’t matter because those corporations didn’t go in for tax schemes of that sort, whereas movement of undeclared profits to tax havens by some of our biggest corporations is now rather scandalous. Were the corporate decision-makers in those days more honest or inclined to look further ahead for their American operations? Or were they simply reacting to the higher returns possible on capital invested or re-invested in the United States? Were prosecutors and regulators more competent or more honest in those days?
Corporate Sex seems almost naive in some ways. And not quite two decades has passed. In any case, it’s a snapshot as even Tolstoy’s novels had to be.