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Al Gore, Felix Salmon, and How to Think About “Sustainable Capitalism”
Report from Generation Foundation on “sustainable capitalism”The new issue has my piece on the Generation Investment Management firm co-founded more than a decade ago by Al Gore, and why Gore thinks...
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A Story I Hope You'll Read: Al Gore’s Role as the Green Warren Buffett
From our new issue: Al Gore and David Blood, two of the founders of Generation Investment Management, who believe that their firm can help engineer a paradigm shift in modern capitalism. Don’t laugh....
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We All Hate the Internet, but Sometimes It Saves Our Skin
Or: how 50 cents’ worth of Post-it notes, and a brief bout of searching, saved me hundreds of dollars just now.Glamor shot of the Nexus 5, red modelI am a fan of my Nexus 5 Android phone, made by LG...
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The Way We Read Now
Norman Rockwell illustration for electric light ad, 1920s (Wikimedia)As a business matter, the Atlantic has placed tremendous emphasis through the past two decades on integrating all the different ways...
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We Hate the Internet, but It Saves Our Skins (cont).
Yesterday I mentioned the astonishing (to me) news that, by cramming a wad of Post-it notes underneath the cover of my ailing Android Nexus 5 phone, I could save myself the significant cost and hassle...
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How Investors Look at the Generation Investment News
Following my article on the implications of the so-far-very-profitable “sustainable capitalism” approach of Al Gore’s Generation Investment firm in London, and the previous call-and-response you’ll see...
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Swimming Through the Sky, Over Stunning American Wild Lands
Several times I've mentioned the American Prairie Reserve in north-central Montana, an ambitious, market-minded, long-term attempt to restore an enormous stretch of North American grassland to the...
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Watch Out, Joe! It's a Trap! Why I Hope Biden Will Not Run
Darren Ornitz / Reuters I am a big Joe Biden fan. That is why I hope that announcement he is (supposedly) about to make will be that he’s staying out and letting the Democratic contest unfold.Here’s...
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More on Machines, Reading, Thinking, and Life
Miss Auras, John Lavery (Wikimedia)In some of the installments you’ll find lower down in this thread, I mentioned both the internal and the external unintended-consequences of the shift from paper to...
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Jim Webb, Independent
Lucy Nicholson / ReutersJim Webb at last week’s Democratic debate (Lucy Nicholson / Reuters) Former Senator Jim Webb, whom I’ve considered a friend since the late 1970s, is about the most...
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In Defense of Reading, E-Reader Style
Reading Aloud, Julius LeBlanc Stewart (Wikimedia) Two more notes by readers on the how tablets, phones, and computers are changing the process of reading. Novel angle: these readers say the change may...
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A Military Officer Dissents on Jim Webb, and a Bernie Sanders Supporter Backs...
Last night I explained why I respected the career-long independence of former Senator Jim Webb, now reflected in his leaving the Democratic race.A reader who spent eight years as an active-duty officer...
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Did Al Gore 'Invent' Sustainable Capitalism?
An “it’s about time!” welcome to Al Gore and David Blood, on the Resilient Investor site. In early responses to my article in the current issue about the surprisingly profitable track record of Al...
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Thank You, Vice President Biden
The choice not to run was good for you, your family, your administration, your party, and even your country. (For reasons laid out here.)This decision also means that there is nothing to keep the Biden...
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The One Thing to Read Before Hillary Clinton's Benghazi Testimony ...
… is this big takedown by Kurt Eichenwald, in Newsweek, about the phony nature of the whole inquiry. (For my previous installment on the fraudulence of this committee, and how the press has allowed...
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Can 'Sustainable' Investing Pay Off? A Report from Wharton Says Yes
If you’re joining us late: my article in the current issue, about the Generation Investment Management firm of London, explained its potential as a test case for the “sustainability can be profitable!”...
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ExIm Redux: A Sign of Congress Stepping Back From the Brink?
Just three years ago, a strongly Republican-controlled House voted overwhelmingly to authorize the Export-Import bank. It’s been a whole different saga this time. (Graphic from govtrack.us) From its...
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Today in Chinese Soft-Power Surreality: The 十三五 !
Last night the online China-watcher world was erupting in delight over the video you can watch below. It raises questions that are the Chinese state-run media version of the Heisenberg Uncertainty...
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If You're Thinking About a Looming Naval-Warfare Showdown in the South China...
U.S. commander of the Pacific Fleet, Adm. Scott Swift, discussing freedom of navigation earlier this month, in Australia. (David Gray / Reuters)… here are a few things to read:1) “China Announces the...
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“U's On First?” More on the Wacky 十三五 Video
Yesterday I mentioned a delightfully weird English-language Chinese soft-power / propaganda video, all about “The 十三五 .” As explained earlier, this is about the Communist Party’s 13th five-year plan,...
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