Tag: finance

• BlackRock C.E.O. Larry Fink: Climate Crisis Will Reshape Finance

  January 14, 2020

  In his influential annual letter to chief executives, Mr. Fink said his firm would avoid investments in companies that “present a high sustainability-related risk.” Laurence D. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/business/dealbook/larry-fink-blackrock-climate-change.html more ›

• Platforms and Publishers: The End of an Era

  November 26, 2019

  This report is part of an ongoing, multi-year study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School into the relationship between large-scale technology companies and journalism. This… more ›

• Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Ray Dalio Says Global Economy Faces ‘Scary Situation’

  October 29, 2019

  Oct.29 — Billionaire hedge-fund founder Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat from an explosive mix of ineffective monetary policy, a rise in the wealth gap and climate… more ›

• Superyachts and private jets: spending of corrupt super-rich revealed

  October 24, 2019

  The multimillion pound spending habits of corrupt members of the global super-rich – including 421 luxury homes, three superyachts, seven private jets as well as elite private school fees and… more ›

• Q&A: what is the ‘Troika Laundromat’ and how did it work?

  October 24, 2019

  Essentially, it’s the name given to a collection of 70 offshore shell companies whose controllers used them to move billions of dollars of private wealth from Russia to the west.… more ›

• A Big Investor Warns After Lisbon’s Property Boom

  October 12, 2019

  Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes. The time to buy, Baron Rothschild said after the battle of Waterloo, is… more ›

• The 13 craziest slides that show SoftBank’s vision for the next 300 years

  September 27, 2019

  In June 2010, the richest man in Japan revealed his latest vision for the next 30 years and the next 300 years. Masayoshi Son, the chairman and CEO of tech… more ›

• The Future of Cities

  September 6, 2019

  From developments in skyscraper architecture, green energy and driverless transport to social divides within cities and with nations, manufacturers clinging on in the margins and China starting a new metropolis… more ›

• The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance

  August 28, 2019

  Following the bank bailout and the Global Financial Crisis, anger towards the financial system reached new heights. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745333502/the-heretics-guide-to-global-finance more ›

• The Invention of Money

  August 4, 2019

  When the Venetian merchant Marco Polo got to China, in the latter part of the thirteenth century, he saw many wonders—gunpowder and coal and eyeglasses and porcelain. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/the-invention-of-money more ›