Future of Finance Blog

On the "Future of Finance" blog, we grapple with the critical challenges we face as we seek to transform our economy and our financial system in ways that bring into being a more just society and a truly sustainable way of living on this earth. Such topics include but are not limited to financial reform, the stranded asset issue, the wealth gap, divestment/reinvestment, and of course, Regenerative Capitalism. To follow the "Future of Finance," please visit Capitalinstitute.org/Blog or sign up to receive our regular e-bulletin.

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Innovation & Technology

The Character of Our Technology
In consideration of technology's exponentially growing impact on our lives, it has never been more essential to get clear on the character of technology we want. And for that, we must be willing to make hard choices grounded in the fierce defense of the values we hold dear.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Tax Reform: A Real Cohn Job
How tax reform has fallen victim to the culture that can subsume decent men on Wall Street, where everything—a deal, a job, a house, even a marriage in some cases—gets reduced to and commodified as a “trade”.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Fix (Don't Flush) the Estate Tax
The Estate Tax is on the chopping block in this second Gilded Age, yet there is probably no aspect of the U.S. tax code more aligned with the values that the Founding Fathers risked their lives for than the law taxing inherited wealth. Recirculating this wealth, either voluntarily or through taxation is fundamental to a healthy economic metabolism, as we know from the study of all regenerative systems. It’s not ideological.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Dear Cities: Resist Amazon's HQ2
No city, no matter how appealing in the short term, should want to have its future rest in the hands of one company, as many “company towns” have learned over the ages.

Environment

From Paris to Drawdown: Get Serious About Climate
Like other unconscionable and unfathomable acts of the early 21st century—a period of historic great change already—Trump’s pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement has sent me searching for the deeper meaning of it all, while the pundits flail away.

Innovation & Technology

March for Science — Really?
How is it possible that in America, on the 47th anniversary of Earth Day, it was concluded that our situation was so dire that what was needed was not just a march for aggressive climate policies, but rather a “March for Science” itself?

One cannot help but notice history repeating itself as we enter a new era: a Second Scientific Revolution.

Innovation & Technology

Shifting From Parts to Patterns
In the context of our interconnected 21st century social, political, economic and ecological challenges, the critical distinction between complexity and reductionism is far from a trivial one. It is, in fact, a life or death insight.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Hell No, Kraft Heinz! Hell Yes, Business For Good!
Unilever swatted away their unsolicited financial-driven suitors like a grizzly bear smacks down an interloper if her cubs are close by. But the fundamental issues at play here are worth more serious reflection than the mere machismo of win-or-lose deal-making in the greed-driven world of finance. We must ask ourselves three questions.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Broken Trust
At this year’s World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, PR firm Edelman shared its comprehensive annual Trust Barometer, confirming what we all know: global trust in institutions and leaders is at an all-time low. Fully two-thirds of countries are now considered “distrusters” (under 50% trust in the mainstream institutions of business, government, media and NGOs to do what is right), compared to about half a year ago. This is a stunning collapse in trust, even from last year’s low base.

Environment

City States Rising!
Globalism’s associated and accelerating complexity of interconnected crises from migration to terrorism, from pandemics to climate change, define the new context of our 21st-century reality. Unmanaged technological change and an outdated economic ideology compound the already unfair burden these crises impose on global citizens. One need only consider the 18 percent approval rating of the United States Congress, the recent U.S. election, the EU/Euro fiasco, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Turkey (and more) to question whether the Nation State, a 400-year-old response to a different challenge in a different context, is up to the task.
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