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Gauging the Great Recession’s Effects on Households and Charity

Published November 25th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

Sometimes numbers just don’t make the impact they should when first encountered. I reread some this morning that snap an unforgettable shot of the Great Recession and its…

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Woodrow Wilson’s Tragedy: Thoughts on the 50th Anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s Death

Published November 22nd, 2013 by Peter Kinder

I started this post on Wednesday, a brilliant late fall day just as Nov. 22, 1963, was in southern New England. Like everyone else alive that day, I…

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The New Normalcy: Lawrence Summers & Paul Krugman’s Pall on Parade

Published November 18th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

No administration was more tumultuous than Woodrow Wilson’s second (1917-21): World War I entered and won; the fight over the League of Nations; Prohibition’s start; the influenza pandemic;…

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Joseph & Pharaoh: A Lesson for a Time of Climate Change

Published November 11th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

I’ve been reading Global Crisis: War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale Univ. Press, 2013) by Ohio State history professor Geoffrey Parker. Parker has…

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Fear, Fortitude & the Future: Toward Investor Standards Based on History for Gauging Preparation for Warming

Published November 1st, 2013 by Peter Kinder

Note: This post is a revised version of a talk I gave at the 24th annual Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing sponsored by First Affirmative Financial Network (FAFN)…

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