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A Stronger Economy? Learn Bank Speak!
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. John Hope Bryant sat down with FutureChallenges contributor Jamie Stark after speaking at the 2013 Global Economic Symposium in Kiel, Germany. Bryant is the founder and chief executive of Operation Hope, Inc., a global nonprofit dedicated to […]
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Sense and Sustainability – How Women can Boost the Economy
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. Most of the panels at the Global Economic Symposium had quite a strict format, with a bunch of luminaries in direct agreement over a topic discussing what the best approach to the issue would be. Sometimes there […]
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The Future of Europe: Finality or Finale?
I have now been blogging on the subject of Europe and its future, if any, for quite a while so it’s high time to draw some conclusions. This is a vast subject and one quite dear to me so it’s not hard to keep writing, however modestly, on the subject. […]
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“Nearly Eighty Percent of Our Money Doesn‘t Care about How It Generates Its Returns!”
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. Martin Rich, an ex-investment banker currently with Social Finance, talked about the need for a change in mindset about investments. The major shift that perhaps defines the twentieth century is this: money has replaced people as […]
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Religion as a Starting Point
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Can Religion Help Solve Global Problems?” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. In lower Manhattan, a small blue plaque hanging on a wrought iron fence describes the building behind the gate. The building is St. Paul’s Chapel, built […]