So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.
David KortenThe first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
David KortenThere is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.
David KortenAs an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.
David KortenWhen the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.
David Korten