Looking West Through The Bahamas Prism: Drugs, Solar Power & Gambling

Looking West Through The Bahamas Prism: Drugs, Solar Power & Gambling

Published April 9th, 2015 by Peter Kinder

Considering the US through the prism of stories in the Bahamian press reveals facets of the flawed, cracking diamond that is our country. Drug Wars Uber Alles The Punch, The…

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Removing Social Safety Nets: Workers Comp & the English Reformation

Removing Social Safety Nets: Workers Comp & the English Reformation

Published March 15th, 2015 by Peter Kinder

What happens when an essential part of the social safety net frays or disappears? A conversation with my son, Jotham, a lawyer who’s handling some Workers’ Compensation cases, got me…

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Socially Responsible Investing: Aspiration & Impact

Socially Responsible Investing: Aspiration & Impact

Published November 26th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

The Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing marked its 25th anniversary this month. Few conferences can claim justly to have changed their field – in this case, financial services –…

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‘A Friedman Doctrine – The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits’: 44 Years Later

Published September 12th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

September 13 marks the 44th anniversary of the publication of University of Chicago professor Milton Friedman’s article, ‘A Friedman Doctrine – The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase…

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Random Notes: Re-segregation; IDA & NSA; and Disinvestment

Published July 12th, 2014 by Peter Kinder

On second reading, ‘Segregation Now…’ by Nikole Hannah-Jones which appeared in the May Atlantic hits like Katrina and leaves in its wake – stripped of self-congratulatory, MLK-day delusions –…

‘The Rule of Law’: A Lot of Moldy Washing

Published July 28th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

What distinguishes ‘us’ from ‘them’, we learnt in the bomb-shelter era, is ‘the rule of law’. We’ve got it; they don’t. Watching foundations and universities over a…

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Fossil Fuel Divestment: A Look at Some Precedents

Published July 19th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

I don’t feel ambivalent about fossil fuel divestment. I feel torn. On the one hand, I’ve watched shareholder engagement work since 1979 when I was introduced to…

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Watchdogs & Freedom: Cerberus, Bushmaster & CalSTRS

Published December 19th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

I have long loved the unintended juxtapositions between the names of private equity firms and the companies they own. Cerberus Capital Management took its name from Greco-Roman mythology. …

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The Sands of (Our) Time: Casinos, Regulations & Elections

Published October 26th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

Of the business visionaries of the 20th century, none was greater than Meyer Lansky (1902-83). Crime writer and poker expert, James McManus, described him a decade ago in…

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The Thalidomide Apology: A Study in Corporate Accountability

Published September 2nd, 2012 by Peter Kinder

‘German drug firm makes 1st apology for thalidomide’ So reads the headline of an August 31 Associated Press story by Frank Jordans and Maria Cheng.[1] Gruenenthal Group‘s…

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