“Progress or Collective Insanity?” ©Hazel Henderson 2021 Today, we are enslaving ourselves in efforts to keep up with ever-faster screen-based digitization of our societies, 5G speed, AI, IoT, cryptos, NFTs and virtual reality still boosted by illusions in venture capitalists’ dreams. As we know, all our global media have become …
“Beyond COP26, A Deeper Dive“ by Hazel Henderson
©Hazel Henderson 2021 Today, we are enslaving ourselves trying to keep up with ever-faster screen-based digitization of our societies, 5G speed, AI, IoT, cryptos, NFTs and virtual reality. Let’s step back, take a deep breath and remember our physics lessons: Our Information Age technologies all are based on ever more …
DealBook: How does this end?
“So this is what I meant by calling public stock markets “the Global Casino“, accelerated by HFT and now internet gamers and day traders on Reddit!! We tried to sound the alarm with our seminar on Wall Street, Nov, 2013 and report “Perspectives on Reforming Electronic Markets and Trading”, 2014. …
Meme stocks, GameStop, and Robinhood’s bid to save itself
“More evidence of the need to fundamentally reform stock markets, as we warned in “Perspectives on Reforming Electronic Markets and Trading“ of the threats posed by computerized trading. Stay tuned! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“ The past few days of trading have seen more drama than a Hollywood movie (The Wolf …
You cannot have AI ethics without ethics-By Dave Lauer
“Ethical Markets is proud to post this important article “You Cannot Have AI Ethics without Ethics“ by our distinguished Advisory Board member, Dave Lauer, CEO, Urvin.AI. Dave’s expertise in big data analytics in financial services now digs deeper into how best to monitor and hold algorithms and their designers accountable. …
“Personal Reflections on Exposing the Myths Of Money”
by Hazel Henderson ©2020 Hazel Henderson Today the money meme rules our lives and social interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? I studied all the economics textbooks of every perspective from the Austrian “laissez-faire” market fundamentalists to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, (1776) and his earlier …
“Fixing the money meme: How it limits our freedom and life choices”
4 November 2020, Hazel Henderson Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth Today the money meme rules our lives and interactions in most societies on Earth. How did this happen? Economists analyze money-based markets. Trading is innate in human behavior. Karl Polanyi describes …
Final Task Force Newsletter
“Ethical Markets has welcomed our collaboration with this important Task Force, as well as the UNEP Inquiry on Design of Sustainable Finance and the papers we contributed: “Perspectives on Reforming Electronic Markets and Trading“ (2014) and “FINTECH: Good and Bad News for Sustainable Finance“. There is still much work to …
“THE PROMISE & PERILS OF MEDIOCRACIES“
By Hazel Henderson ©2020 Hazel Henderson We humans have evolved a new form of governance beyond our machine age democracies: toward radical still unruly participatory mediocracies in our Information Age, as I first described in 1964 and in “Mediocracies and Their Attention Economies“. The early promise of television foreseen by Canadian …
Global Current Issues and Trends: November 2019
Total non-farm payroll employment increased in October by 128,000 jobs. After revisions upward in August and September, job gains have averaged 176,000 per month over the past 3 months. The US government laid off 20,000 workers who completed work for the 2020 Census. The temporary layoffs of the 800,000 federal …