“Our Fortunes, Our Lives, Our Sacred Honor” BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf Whether we like it or not, we are all witnessing something particularly horrific, an incredible tragedy, being televised for all the world to see as […]
Archives for June 2022
Perspectives: Going Way Beyond 1973
Washington warned us BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf 1972 was a very bad year for everyone in the USA. Richard Nixon defeated the unshakably honest son of a preacher, Senator George McGovern, who ran, and lost, on […]
Perspectives: Charging Ahead?
Crashing the grid! BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for a downloadable pdf Electric cars are gushing onto our streets from Tesla, and from Nissan, GM, Ford, Volkswagen, and a half dozen other car manufacturers (450 different models globally!). Elon Musk succeeded beyond Detroit’s wildest […]
Perspectives: Windfall Profits Tax
Give it back! BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf Just what is a “Windfall” or “Excess Profits Tax”? The words “windfall profits” is your first clue. Wikipedia defines an excess profits tax as “a tax on any profit above a certain amount.” The […]
Remembering Academy Fellow Hazel Henderson
Goodbye “Mother” Hazel Henderson (The following tribute was originally sent as an email to the Academy network from Academy President, Rinaldo S. Brutoco.) “Nature is still in charge. And sooner or later, finance, which is still completely blind, will wake up to this. I call the financial model ‘magical thinking.’” -Hazel Henderson This week […]
Perspectives: United No More
Time for another reboot BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf What ever happened to the League of Nations? You know, the global organization founded on January 10, 1920, by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War? It was created in […]