Tag: Wall Street

  • Attacks of the “Killer Algorithms”

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    Reposted From The Medical Quack Blog: The 401k Plan, is one of the products that consumers buy that Americans don’t know the price and they don’t know the quality.  Once again we return to the world of complexities and so how did it get that way?  Models and software that execute algorithms and formulas that manage…

  • This Week’s Rant

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    It is our intention to keep the tone of this blog generally positive. We want to focus on solutions rather than problems.  However, on occasion we all need to vent.  Hence, our new feature “This Weeks Rant. ”  We’ve started with Chris Hedges’ post “Rise Up or Die” due to its relentlessly depressing tone  and…

  • Organizing Principles

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    In his article “The Down to Earth Economy” in the Winter issue of yes! magazine, David Korten maintains that, “extreme individualism, greed and violence are pathological and a sign of physical, developmental, cultural and/or institutional system failure.”  He contrasts the organizing principles of Wall Street with those of nature and concludes that we must “restructure…