Incubator
We are excited to launch a new 12-month organizational incubator rooted in Living Systems Patterns. This Incubator is designed to
nRhythm
September 21, 2023
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Offerings
offerings For over a decade, the Capital Institute has worked to create a new space for holistic economic thought that
nRhythm
October 14, 2022
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High-Frequency Trading is a Blight on Markets. Tobin Tax Can Help.
This blog post previously ran in The Guardian’s Business section. A tax on financial transactions can calm the frenzy of
John Fullerton
April 4, 2014
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Update: Commodities are Different (in a “Full World”)
The concern I raised last June that we should enforce the Bank Holding Company Act and not allow the too often irresponsible,
John Fullerton
March 5, 2012
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A Tax for the Supercommittee to Embrace
Last Friday, I participated in a Special Briefing on Capitol Hill in support of the Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). I
John Fullerton
October 24, 2011
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Taming the Casino
Bloomberg View has joined its Wall Street customers in coming out against the Financial Transactions Tax proposed by Germany and France,
John Fullerton
October 2, 2011
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Why We Need a Financial Transactions Tax
Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the situation is serious when enterprise
John Fullerton
August 21, 2011
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Commodities are Different (in a “Full World”)
Foreign Policy’s recent “How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis” reflects the dangerous, myopic thinking all too prone to “blame
John Fullerton
June 13, 2011
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The Six Root Causes of the Financial Crisis
“We conclude first and foremost that the crisis was avoidable,” declared Phil Angelides, chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
John Fullerton
January 31, 2011
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How Banks Make Money in Derivatives
The mystery of derivatives, the secretive multi-trillion dollar market that few understand but is believed to be at the heart
John Fullerton
December 19, 2010
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Financial System as a Global Commons
Last week, Capital Institute co-convened with futurist Hazel Henderson at Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil), her company’s facility in
John Fullerton
September 19, 2010
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Efficiency
Why the US Should Join the Momentum Building in Support of a “Speculator” Tax
On April 15, I made a statement at the Press Club in Washington, DC.,
John Fullerton
April 16, 2010
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