At some point or another, they were the darlings of Wall Street. I mean, think of every company you just listed. Usually where these cases arise are companies that the market has very high expectations for and ultimately have problems with their financials. Corporate fraud is not usually begun by here's a bad guy in a company who does bad things. Do you think these are aberrations or are they indicative of a larger culture of corruption and fraud? I mean Enron for one, Worldcom, Columbia HCA Health Care and Archer Daniels Midland. HANSEN: During the years you were with The New York Times, you covered a lot of corporate scandals. Each fraud led into another, led into another and, you know, as long as you have a system where you can make money if you lie, people will lie. And when I first started I thought it would last about 18 months. I wrote about corporate fraud virtually the entire time. I mean, I was at The New York Times for almost 20 years. EICHENWALD: As much as I respect the idea, it's wishful thinking. ![]() HANSEN: First of all, what do you think of the president's declaration about quick kills and bloated bonuses and going after them? Do you think he can or is it wishful thinking? KURT EICHENWALD (Author, "The Informant: A True Story"): Glad to be here. The new movie is based on his book, "The Informant: A True Story." And he joins us from the studios of Cake Mix Recording in Dallas, Texas. HANSEN: Kurt Eichenwald is an investigative writer. President BARACK OBAMA: We will not go back to the days of reckless behavior and unchecked excess that was at the heart of this crisis, where too many were motivated only by the appetite for quick kills and bloated bonuses. Last week, President Obama pledged to crackdown on the financial industry. Executives there were accused of orchestrating a worldwide conspiracy to fix prices.Ĭorruption and greed are no strangers to parts of corporate America. It's based on a late-1990s case against the conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland. Although the movie is sometimes played for laughs, the real story was no laughing matter. The informant AD8 is superior to the participant AD8, and equivalent to the MMSE and MoCA in screening for cognitive impairment in memory clinic patients."The Informant" opened in theaters on Friday. The informant AD8 (≥2) had very good sensitivity and specificity, while the participant AD8 (≥2) had suboptimal sensitivity and specificity in detecting cognitive impairment (sensitivity 0.93 versus 0.59 specificity 0.87 versus 0.65 91.8% versus 60% correctly classified). The discriminant validity of the informant AD8 was significantly superior to the participant AD8 in detecting cognitive impairment (CDR ≥ 0.5). Participants were Chinese (83.6%) females (54.3%) with a mean age and education of 73.4 ± 8.6 years and 6.2 ± 5.6 years, respectively. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) analysis was used to compare the discriminatory ability of AD8, MoCA, and MMSE. ![]() The MoCA and MMSE were administered to all participants, who subsequently received a comprehensive clinical and neuropsychological assessment leading to a consensus diagnosis and a Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR). The AD8 was administered to 280 participant-informant dyads. This study aims to investigate the discriminatory ability of the AD8 in detecting cognitive impairment at a memory clinic by comparing the informant AD8, participant AD8, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). However, studies on participant AD8 yielded inconsistent results. The informant AD8 has good discriminatory indices in detecting questionable dementia.
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