- Climate Change ·
The Case for Spending Down a Charitable Foundation
“Have things become so critical – both in terms of the scale of the challenges we face but also the…
- Future of Finance ·
While Rome (and the Western US) Burns…
It’s officially election season, and (surprise) we’re off to a terrific start. There are plenty of very real short and…
- Financial Transactions Tax ·
Good Knight HFT
The futile debate between market fundamentalists and those who claim you can’t stop “progress” on the one hand, and proponents…
- Ecological Footprint ·
Financial Overshoot
Last week, I gave a talk to the Missouri Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems annual meeting. This was the first…
- Future of Finance ·
Off-Grid Financing
The ramifications of the Libor scandal—what Warren Buffett glibly called a can of worms that affects the whole world—grow by the day.…
- Future of Finance ·
Will Barclays’ CEO Surprise Us?
Like Lloyd Blankfein with the Abacus fiasco, and Jamie Dimon with “the whale trade,” Barclays CEO Bob Diamond has an…
- Financial Reform ·
Is Jamie Dimon’s Business First Class?
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon will today, once again, stand before the authors of Dodd-Frank and attempt to make the case…
- Future of Finance ·
Freedom in the Anthropocene
Much needs to change in the Anthropocene, including our willingness to have constraints placed on our precious right to individual freedom. This…
- Future of Finance ·
Real Prosperity Starts Here
I spent two days last week in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the “Real Prosperity Starts Here” conference organized by the…
- Future of Finance ·
10 Questions JPMorgan’s Board of Directors Should be Asking
Much has been written about the trading—not hedging—debacle at JPMorgan. Jamie Dimon’s mea culpa is intended to head off deeper…
- Efficiency ·
Flawed, Ignorant and Dangerous: A Bain Capital Partner’s Worldview
“At base, having a small elite with vast wealth is good for the poor and the middle class.” This is…
- Financial Reform ·
Is There a Case for Public Banking in America?
Last week I participated in the inaugural Public Banking Institute conference in Philadelphia – not a coincidence, freedom from the…
- Future of Finance ·
A Letter to the Hopeful Inhabitants of the Anthropocene
A hypothetical letter from the future to today’s global citizens. Written by John Fullerton for the House of Futures In100Y Project and…
- Financial Reform ·
Financial Statesmanship for a New Economy
Reactions to departing Goldman derivatives salesman Greg Smith’s “Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs,” which appeared as an op-ed in…
- Commodities ·
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,…