Martin Lipton comments on some of the most significant issues facing boards of directors in 2008.

History is clear that as an empirical matter, booms induce fraud and swindling.

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The authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to regulate mutual funds is carried out by the SEC’s Division of Investment Management. Four former directors of this division who are now in private practice will share...

Examiningtheir incentives and access to informationraises questions about whether a supermajority of independent directors should be the "gold standard" of corporate governance.

If the CIA “deniers” won’t accept the word of the former vice president, and the four CIA directors who have testified that CIA interrogations produced invaluable intelligence, perhaps they will believe WikiLeaks.

Although they are analogous to corporate directors, the directors of government-sponosored enterprises have a duty of loyalty that extends beyond the GSE itself and its shareholders or their equivalent.

Dan Sumner, Barry Goodwin and Vincent Smith, co-directors of the AEI 2012 Farm Bill Initiative, will discuss the ways that reducing farm subsidies can contribute to federal deficit reduction and debt control and improve the efficiency of American agriculture without affecting the security of the U.S. food supply chain.

The Obama administration is going all out to attract Chinese companies to invest in the U.S., but at the same time, it has rebuffed the efforts of the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to obtain contracts with major U.S. Internet providers or to take over U.S. telecom companies. At this event, a panel of experts will analyze the issues from both an economic and a security perspective.