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Posts Tagged ‘Finding Our Way in the New Economy’
The biggest banks have an ethical obligation to help alleviate the pain from a crisis they helped create. After being extended such “grace” because of the fear of an economic meltdown, the banks then failed to extend that grace to…
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 In this audio interview, Jim Wallis and Jeannie Choi speak with Elizabeth Warren: economist, passionate advocate for consumer protection, and veteran Sunday school teacher. Warren is on a new mission to push Congress to create a consumer financial protection agency…
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Ever since the crash of 2008, I’ve found myself doing a lot of soul searching. At first, like most people, I had no idea what the crash was about. Who caused it? What political party is to blame? And for…
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On his blog, international missiologist Andrew Jones made this prediction: “Emerging church energies will be re-directed from creative worship arts to creative social enterprises which will enable long-term sustainability. In both realms, women will come to the front as some…
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In past years, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, focused primarily on business and politics as usual. Any talk of the World Economic Forum’s soul would have fizzled quickly.
But this year, in its 40th gathering of 2,500 international VIPs, something…
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Each year, over one thousand global leaders gather at a retreat center in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss the major economic, political, and technological forces currently at work in the world. Top executives from Google, HSBC, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), JP…
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Notwithstanding President Obama’s denunciation Wednesday night of the empty “prosperity” that was “built on a housing bubble and financial speculation,” the Wall Street bubble profiteers are shocked — shocked! — to discover that there was gambling going on in their establishments.…
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In past years at Davos, I often found myself in early morning optional sessions on social responsibility, in small rooms on the third floor of the conference center, with people like Muhammad Yunus, the founder of the Grameen Bank in…
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Jim Wallis speaks on the plenary panel topic: “Rethinking Values in the Post-Crisis World,” with Yvan Allaire, Thomas H. Glocer, Yasuchika Hasegawa, Hartmut Ostrowski, Muhammad Yunus, and James H. Quigley.
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America, dominating the global economy, imports more goods than it exports. What is less tangible, but possibly more important, is how America exports its values to a rapidly interconnecting global society.
Arguably, most wars that America has fought aim to export…
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Without a doubt, the collective American experience stands upon the foundational DNA of the initial major settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth Rock. In Jamestown, commerce, trade, markets, and profits landed upon the eastern shores seeking to enlarge the tent of…
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 Last night I was on The Daily Show again with Jon Stewart to talk about my new book. It’s always a fun show. I enjoyed the back and forth with Jon about values, economics, and the bad morality play of banks,…
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 I’m on my way to New York City, and I wanted to let you know that this evening I’ll be visiting again with one of my favorite TV hosts — Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. I’ve been…
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