Archive for September, 2012
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The Case for Spending Down a Charitable Foundation
September 18th, 2012 by John Fullerton“Have things become so critical – both in terms of the scale of the challenges we face but also the possibility of change – that this radical step [of spending down our assets over the next ten to fifteen years] is a good move?”
This is the question recently put to the advisor of a foundation deeply concerned about the environment, which he in turn shared >> Read more
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While Rome (and the Western US) Burns…
September 4th, 2012 by John FullertonIt’s officially election season, and (surprise) we’re off to a terrific start. There are plenty of very real short and medium term issues for the candidates to mold their ideologies around. Most notably, like much of the so-called “developed world,” the US has a jobs crisis, both in quantity and quality, that challenges modern capitalism for answers it does not have >> Read more