Some CEOs are getting the message that even though the economy is growing, they need to serve their communities, too.
(This commentary was originally published by YES! Magazine on February 20, 2018.)
Laurence D. Fink, founder and chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s largest institutional investor, recently set the financial world abuzz with a
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Presentation to MoveOn Olympic Progressives
American Awakening
Sequim High School Auditorium, Sequim, WA
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
I’m thrilled to be speaking to this amazing civic gathering. Such energy. Such possibility.
Six hundred fifty energized people gathered in this auditorium tonight in small town rural America to advance […]
This report, for which David is the primary author, makes the case that the institutional structure of the system by which money is created and allocated determines whether America is governed as a democracy or an oligarchy. It presents a series of proposals to create […]
The financial crash of September 2009 exposed the power and corruption of Wall Street. It should have been a wakeup call to the need for a thoroughgoing redesign of the financial system. Yet both the Bush and Obama administrations responded by pumping trillions of dollars in bailout money into zombie banks […]
Debt slavery is an ancient institution that traces back to the beginning of Empire. In earlier times, it was more explicit and visible, because it was more personal. The hapless borrower became the bonded servant or slave of the lender—a condition that prevails today in many low-income countries. In the contemporary United States, it is […]
Agenda for a New Economy
launched in New York City the week of January 18, 2009 at a national theological conference, Radical Abundance: A Theology of Sustainability, hosted by the historic Trinity Wall Street Church located in the very heart of Wall Street. There were some […]