Guest article written for AllAboutAlpha.com – the official publication of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association Originally Published at: http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2013/06/17/the-truth-about-executive-pay/ There is little doubt that we are facing tough times for the economy. Rising unemployment, austerity and many other factors have meant that the average person feels considerably worse off…
Originally published in Global ARC. Vikas Shah interviews Alan S. Blinder (the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University) who served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1994 until January 1996. In this position, he represented…
An interview with Eileen Bartholemew, Vice President of Prize Development at the X Prize Foundation. “For most of history…” notes Rachael King, “the thrill of solving life’s thorny problems has provided ample incentive for inventors. Yet the promise of fortune and fame doesn’t hurt. Over the past few centuries, governments…
An interview with Carlos Warner of the federal public defender’s office in the Northern US District of Ohio, which represents 11 of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay Prison The idea that as innocents, we are free, would seem a logical moral conclusion to any discussion around justice. It would also…
An interview with Tim Berry, a world expert on business planning Plans are the DNA of business, containing all the base information needed to form a strategic framework for the growth, direction and shape of an enterprise. Whether you are launching a new business, growing an existing enterprise, or even…
Diamond’s are one of the world’s most precious natural resources. These unique stones are almost as old as the Earth itself, and have become culturally, socially, economically, politically and even scientifically significant. Figures from the World Diamond Council state that each year, around US$13 billion of rough-diamonds are mined (65%…
Guest article written for AllAboutAlpha.com – the official publication of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association Originally posted at: http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/12/20/managing-risk-in-fixed-income-markets/ At any given time, almost US$100 trillion is outstanding on the global bond market. This is roughly twice the size of the world’s equity markets combined, amounting to almost…
On December 14th 2012 Newtown, Connecticut- a small town with just 27,000 residents- became the scene of one of the most horrific mass-murders in modern US history. A lone gunman first took his own mother’s life, before brutally taking the lives of 20 children and 7 adults at Sandy Hook…
Guest article written for AllAboutAlpha.com – the official publication of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association Originally posted at: http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/12/13/a-look-at-global-financial-regulation/ The fundamental principle of free market economies is that supply and demand (rather than governments) determine market prices, actions and outcomes. In an emotion-free and ethical world, this principle…
Guest article written for AllAboutAlpha.com – the official publication of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association Originally posted at: http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/12/04/alpha-hunter-investing-in-travel/ Investing in real estate, stock and shares, and up and coming companies are well known lucrative investment options, and there is plenty of advice available on how to do…
Guest article written for AllAboutAlpha.com – the official publication of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association Originally posted at: http://allaboutalpha.com/blog/2012/11/27/a-look-at-the-dubai-mercantile-exchange-with-christopher-fix/ The world’s future exchanges have always been built around the needs of trade-cycles. The gamut of participants in any commodity not only require clear and standardised pricing, but also need…
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If I may return to the biology analogy too; human beings get a lot of benefit from walking erect, but our backs and our feet are sometimes sore because we are made of parts that were put together before we could walk erect.
When I first laced up a pair of gloves as a 16-year old kid, it was January 2, 1995, and fame and fortune were not my primary motivation. I was fighting for the next decent meal and to provide for my family, the best way I knew how.
When you tell people these things, they get a little fatalistic about it. They tend to think, 'Well, I guess there's not much I can do about that.' I would call that a bias. It is wrong just as often as it's likely to be right. We really need to interrogate and deconstruct that assumption. It's rarely true, and it can lead people to internalise some of these effects in a way that can be pretty damaging and totally unnecessary.
To make a great movie, you cannot set out to make a great movie! Great films are authentic, they capture the zeitgeist of a time and place in an entertaining and engaging way. Great cinema becomes something that reflects the mood of the time.
I'm constantly bemused when I hear about some amazing energy or agricultural company that is for profit, but works with low-income people and a non-profit leader says, 'you know Jacqueline, charging people who are poor is immoral…' – you know what else is immoral? 700 million people who have no electricity.
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