The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
JOURNAL: The Economic Juggernaut of Genghis Kahn Global Guerrillas Some fun thinking for Wednesday… Here are some of the economic reforms that turned the horde of Genghis Kahn into a steamroller than flattened most of the world’s kingdoms/empires.* He: Delayed gratification. He banned the sacking of the enemy’s camp/city until all of the fleeing soldiers, …
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On May 17 & 18, the Conscious Capitalism Institute is hosting a conference at Bentley, with the theme being Conscious leadership & Marketing. Some participants will be bestselling author Marianne Williamson, Whole Foods Founder John Mackay, marketing guru Faith Popcorn, Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Jeffrey Hollender, Co-Founder and Former CEO at Seventh Generation and a …
More blog posts from Robert McChesney John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney The United States and the world are now a good two decades into the Internet revolution, or what was once called the information age. The past generation has seen a blizzard of mind-boggling developments in communication, ranging from the World Wide Web …
Yves Smith Product Description Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk. But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. ECONned is the first …
Beyond 5 Stars and Merits a Sequel October 1, 2010 Jim Krane TThe author and I reconnected on LinkedIn and he had the publisher send me a copy of this book. I would not normally have bought it for myself, thinking it a “tourism” or “travel” kind of book, and I would have been very …
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This is an audio presentation by David Harvey accompanied by an animation that shows an interesting series of recent historical and geographical connections in the global financial system. The speaker admits to not having any solutions, but only providing the overview of what has happened. test
4 in isolation, beyond 6 in context–a cornerstone book July 14, 2010 Muhammad Yunus and Karl Weber While I sympathize with those who feel that the book lacks reference to prior art, that social business has been around for a very long time, and that much of the book is somewhat similar to his first …
