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 […]
Perspectives: Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
“Mother” Hazel Henderson BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf Elon Musk is the world’s richest person and one of the most brilliant individuals in business. He is the P.T. Barnum of our age—only more effective by far. And yet no one has ever accused him […]
Perspectives: Abortion is Not The Issue
The way to St. Helena BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf Hard to believe though it is, the leaked draft opinion of Justice Samuel Alito is one of the most radical decisions in Supreme Court history. The proposed majority opinion striking down […]
Perspectives: Guns and Butter
Stagflation or Taxes BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf A macroeconomic argument circulating during World War II stated that the nation couldn’t afford both “guns and butter”, pitting the costs of waging war against luxuries like silk stockings […]
Perspectives: Freedom Fuel in the USA and Abroad
Severing the Umbilical Cord BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf On April 14th this column introduced the concept of “Freedom Fuel.” It outlined the potential unlocked by shifting from a planetary fuel system based on fossil fuels to a […]
Perspectives: Inflation, the Economy, and More!
A Leviathan Lurking BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO. Click here for downloadable pdf Most folks are feeling significant pain at the gas pump and the grocery store these days. Remarkably, the cause for that “pain” is the same for both – Inflation. The question is, should we all be worried about that issue in […]
Perspectives: Freedom Fuel
No “Planet B” BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for downloadable pdf 1,000,000,000 = 1 Billion Euros ($1.1 Billion in US dollars) per day. That’s what Europe sends to Russia in cash every single day. At that rate, Russia can finance a war for a very long time. At that […]
Perspectives: War of the Currents
From transmission lines to “Freedom Fuel” BY RINALDO S. BRUTOCO Click here for a downloadable pdf Forest fires, cyber warfare, sabotage, and plain old utility company incompetence, greed, and malfeasance have brought us to the point where we must abandon the electrical grid. It […]