dianavan,
Donaldson is investigating the practices of the SEC. If it becomes that business practices continue along the Enron, Worldspan path, no one will want to invest anymore and that could spell disaster for the market.

As to the thread: ethics is culturally derived from various viewpoints. Reactionary Republican fundamentalist religion will cut corners in order to bring about their theocratic vision. Bush has embraced this as a political as well as quasi-religious position. It can tip the scales at the election.

The Crusade mentality pervades the Bush Adminstration and the kind of
New World Order it advocates could be justifiably labeled religious fanaticism and quasi-Christian-fascism. In this way it parellels the extremist Muslim path of Al Quaeda and could then be classified under the nebulous rubric of "terrorism". Is this crazy?

Frank