- Future of Finance ·
My First USDA Conference
I attended the annual US Department of Agriculture conference this week in Washington DC. My job was to participate on…
- Future of Finance ·
As Goes Egypt…
I am no Middle East expert, and clearly there are a multitude of factors beyond a humiliated fruit cart vendor…
- Future of Finance ·
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. …
- Future of Finance ·
Goldman and Facebook: Who’s Using Who?
I sure got that one wrong. At the end of my 2009 year end letter to Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO…
- Future of Finance ·
Holistic Finance
I have discussed the problem of reductionist thinking, grounded in the Enlightenment, in the past. Nowhere is reductionist thinking more…
- Future of Finance ·
Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth” and the Gates/Buffett Giving Pledge
Andrew Carnegie’s essay titled “Gospel of Wealth”
- Derivatives ·
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…
- Future of Finance ·
Open Letter to President Obama
I was privileged to co-sign this Open Letter to President Obama as the UN Climate Change Conference opened in Cancun last week. …
- Complexity ·
Un-blissful Ignorance of “This Wild Balloon”
After my Thanksgiving turkey, I digested two recent commentaries on the financial industry, “Inside Job,” the mostly fair but incomplete documentary narrated…
- Future of Finance ·
Energy Independence? Really?
“There Will be Fuel”, by Clifford Krauss, was the feature article in a special Energy section of the NY Times…
- Energy Efficiency ·
The Trade Balance, Free Trade, and Energy
Obama had a bad week at the G20. He was rebuked by Western leaders on the weak dollar consequences of…
- Future of Finance ·
Fractals and the Passing of Benoit Mandelbrot
I am grateful to the Triple Crisis Blog for making me aware of the passing this month of the great…
- Future of Finance ·
What I Learned about Resilience in Rural Oregon
I recently gave the keynote at the annual meeting of Oregon Rural Action in La Grande, Oregon, “Making the Shift:…
- Future of Finance ·
B Lab Advances Stakeholder Capitalism
I had the pleasure of attending B Lab’s National Leadership Gathering last week in Long Branch, New Jersey. B Lab is…
- Ecological Footprint ·
Footprints and Foreclosure
The global economy now uses 1.5 times the earth’s capacity to regenerate the natural capital we use every year, up…