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Ron Robins
Founder & Analyst, Investing for the Soul and Publisher of Enlightened Economics blog.
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| Huge Migration of Service Jobs to Developing World Looming |
| Wednesday, 01 September 2010 at 10:24 |
A wave of service jobs leaving US and European shores for the developing world might hit soon. The big impetus would come from a prolonged recession. And some leading economists including Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman, believe a new long recession could start in the months ahead. How will...
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| The Ethics of Gold |
| Tuesday, 24 August 2010 at 11:14 |
The rising price of gold stands as the ethical barometer of the mismanagement of our fiscal, monetary, and currency systems. Gold is in the early stages of re-asserting its historic role of helping to bring order to monetary and currency chaos. Its price has risen more than fourfold over the past...
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| The Coming 21st Century Global Trade War? |
| Friday, 06 August 2010 at 09:27 |
A ‘long depression’ is starting in the US unless massive new stimulus measures are taken to increase consumption and China forced to mark up its currency. This is what renowned Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman believes. Since any new massive stimulus action is unlikely soon, and if we are...
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| Unethical Statistics Lead us Astray |
| Tuesday, 03 August 2010 at 14:23 |
How did the developed world economies come to be in such a mess? It seems that revisions to key US statistics over the past three decades may have played a significant role in fashioning an illusion of unbounded prosperity. Inflation and unemployment rates were lowered and a brighter spin on the...
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| GDP is a Bad Statistic. Alternatives Coming |
| Wednesday, 28 July 2010 at 09:39 |
Hell could have just as big a GDP as heaven! Some could argue that hell’s ‘inhabitants’ under duress might produce even more than those in heaven. GDP makes no distinction between good and ‘bad’ production. Disasters like that of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill increase GDP. The rising...
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| Can Ethical Investing Produce Higher Returns?
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| Monday, 19 July 2010 at 09:48 |
Yes, it is possible that ethical investing can produce higher returns. For instance, America’s Social Investment Forum found in a “ …review of 160 [U.S.] socially responsible mutual funds from 22 members of the Social Investment Forum (SIF)… that the vast majority of the funds—55 per...
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| Sin or Ethical Investing: Which Pays Best? |
| Tuesday, 13 July 2010 at 09:52 |
The stock market plunge in 2008 changed investment returns and investor consciousness in many ways. Prior to 2008, many investment studies found ‘sin’ stock portfolios providing better returns than ethically or conventionally oriented ones. Since then however, there is preliminary evidence that...
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| Ethical and Sharia-compliant Investing Takes Off |
| Monday, 28 June 2010 at 09:26 |
Sustainability issues and financial crises have spurred ethical and Shariah-compliant investing globally.
U.K. green & ethical funds increased to £9.5 Billion in 2009 from just £2.4 billion in 1999 reports EIRIS. In the U.S., ethical and socially responsible investing in all its varied forms...
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| Ethical Investing Shines in Africa as Economy Grows |
| Friday, 18 June 2010 at 15:47 |
A new light in African ethical investing was shone on the plateau continent June 9, 2010. Called AfricaSIF, “… [it] is designed to be a pan-African knowledge base, network and advocate for integrating ESG [environmental, social and governance] factors into investment in Africa.” Based in...
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| Investment Industry Ethics Should Bother You
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| Friday, 11 June 2010 at 15:23 |
Two recent stories concerning the U.S. investment industry are the ‘tip of the iceberg’ when looking at the industry’s ethics.
The first story concerns the May 6 flash crash where the Dow Jones Industrial index in minutes lost 9% of its value—though it quickly recouped most of the loss....
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