Wow!
Submitted by br on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 12:41
Ok, so things are getting crazy! Well, they've been crazy, the idea is just catching on. Markets down, liquidity techtonic, and there just doesn't seem to be anyone in charge.
All this, ALL OF IT (pretty much), is a case for Socially Responsible Investing and corporate governance in particular. The problem is that we are enduring an economic flux based almost entirely on the structure, and lack of it, of the financial system. That system, beleaguered by a trillion dollar war mistake, is subject to the increasingly apparent 'externalities' of climate.
Thomas Friedman wrote a good one in the NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28friedman.html?partner=rssnyt