Dear Slow Money Friend, Our summer was eventful and this fall is shaping up to be even more eventful. Over the past several months, our growth has continued apace. We’ve now got 20 local networks and 13 investment clubs, and we’ve passed $38 million in funding to 350 small food …
Other News – Our Planet’s Future Is in the Hands of 58 People
Our Planet’s Future Is in the Hands of 58 People By Roberto Savio* ROME, Apr 2014 (IPS) – In case you missed it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the third and final part of a report on Apr. 13 in which it says bluntly that …
GMI RATINGS: Snoozing Boards Can Stunt Your Stocks
June 6, 2013 Snoozing Boards Can Stunt Your Stocks (MotleyFool, 6/5/13) “Entrenched boards can lead to company-stunting problems. CEOs are overcompensated, risk is poorly addressed or managed, new consumer trends are missed, stagnant bureaucracies petrify, and terrible disasters like the financial crisis happen. The beauty of a system with checks and …
Carbon Bubble Creates Global Economic Risk’ – Guardian lead story, 19th April 2013
Carbon bubble will plunge the world into another financial crisis – report Trillions of dollars at risk as stock markets inflate value of fossil fuels that may have to remain buried forever, experts warn Global stock markets are betting on countries failing to adhere to legally binding carbon emission targets. …
Too Much Finance?
by Jean-Louis Arcand, Enrico Berkes and Ugo Panizza This paper examines whether there is a threshold above which financial development no longer has a positive effect on economic growth. We use different empirical approaches to show that there can indeed be “too much” finance. In particular, our results suggest that …
The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food
If we don’t reverse the current trend in food prices, we’ve got until August 2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, say complexity theorists kfc 08/15/2011 What causes riots? That’s not a question you would expect to have a simple answer. But today, Marco Lagi and buddies at the New …