Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (May 1, 2003)

Title	Author	Type	Words
As old as the markets. (Bubbles).			2129
Capital comforts: with all the recent scandals, corporations have left themselves wide open to harsh criticism, but their development and growth has provided us with a high standard of living along the way. (Capitalism And Business Growth).			2311
Corporate do-gooders: while scandals have been defining business in recent years, many companies put a lot of dollars into improving society. (Introduction).			570
Crystal-ball investing. (Futures).			1361
Gaining a piece of the action. (Trading).			1368
Glossary.		Glossary	980
Going public. (Initial Public Offering).			1143
No bull.		Brief Article	317
Oink, oink: even when companies go bust and investors lose a bundle, executives usually do just fine. (Executive Compensation).			1781
Playing it safe. (Bonds).			1395
Profits before people: the ultimate breach of ethical behaviour is to sell a product knowing it to be dangerous or to operate a plant in such a way as to threaten the lives of workers or the community. Unfortunately, extremely unethical business practices such as these are not as rare as they should be. (Ethics).			1948
Quote ... unquote.		Brief Article	279
Rolling the dice. (Strategies).			1998
Spreading the risk. (Mutual Funds).			1548
Swapping privacy for growth: one way of turning a small successful company into a big successful company is to find lots of people to invest in it. And, one way of doing that is to turn a private firm, which doesn't offer shares to the public, into a public one, which does. (Public Versus Private Companies).			1993
Swindlers R us: big business has tarnished its image in a very big way, from gold diggers to creative accountants. Chief executives and accountants have become less trusted even than politicians and journalists. (Corporate Scandals).			1978
The dot bomb. (Dot-com Bubble).			1061
The market cops. (Regulation).			1171
The politics of business: nowhere is the collaboration between business and politicians closer than in the United States under President George W. Bush; in Canada, the relationship is more subtle. (Politics).			2054
There's one born every minute. (Swindles).			2184
Trading places. (History).			933
Who guards the guards? It's a lot easier to lose trust than it is to regain it, but some new rules aim to help corporations climb back to a higher level of respectability. (New Rules).			1581