Jeff Bezos the $189bn man who adopts on two Pizza team policy

Bloomberg Journalist, Brad Stone, charts a revelatory and definitive portrait of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder’s journey to become the world’s richest man and Amazon’s expansion exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries. Its workforce quintupled in size ad its valuation has soared Lowell over a trillion dollars. Jeff Bezos who once…

Cloth merchant graduating to investment and commercial bank

Private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, is neither a Rothschild, a JP Morgan nor a Goldman Sachs. In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former Financial executive Zachary  Karabell, offers the first full and frank look inside the institution against the backdrop of American history and explores Brown Brothers Harriman’s central role in the story…

Geography of Inequality from Seattle to Baltimore – Winner and loser cities

Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment: Winning and losing in one-click America, highlights with empathy and breadth, what drives economic populism and the division between a sliver of the professional-managerial elite in winner-takes-all cities and everyone else, also the hidden human costs of other inequality not the growing gap between the rich and poor, but the gap between…

Place human values before market values

The former Bank governor and now the UN special envoy for climate finance, Mark Carney focuses on the global financial system and corporate governance, along with climate change.  Carney’s detailed account of money and finance, where we get tantalising glimpses of life as a central banker – gilt chairs at a G20 summit in Riyadh…

UK cruise ships scarpped in the world’s largest ship graveyard

When Maritime voyages went into administration the liquidators in a distress sale without any concerns about the environmental impact, in search of recovery sold at auction Two British cruise ships the Marco Polo, the Magellan and three other cruise ship which were impounded and sold to settle the debts in November 2020. The Marco Polo…

Plots at Amazon rainforest being sold illegally in Facebook Marketplace

  Brazil’s protected rainforest including parts of national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples are being illegally sold via Facebook. The Californian social media giant said it was “ready to work with local authorities”, but indicated it would not take independent action of its own to halt the trade. Our commerce policies require buyers…

Brexit by a true  late convert

The United Kingdom is a European country, but not the same kind of European country as Germany, Poland, or Hungary as for 150 centuries Britain has been inhabited and been on the edge, culturally and literally, of mainland Europe. Will the unruly forces unleashed by Brexit break up the Union? Historian, Robert Tombs reveals that…

Corporate America and China

Clyde Prestowitz who worked for President Ronald Regan, and renowned globalisation and Asian expert has advised subsequent US administrations offers useful advice for Joe Biden the new American 46th president to adopt, as resetting US relations with China will be one of his top agenda. The strategies that the United States and its allies can…

Inpsirational mission

Capitalism was stuck as it had no answers to a host of problems, including inequality, the digital divide, disease, poverty, dementia, the environmental crisis even before the 2020 pandemic. Mariana Mazzucato, a high profile economist noted for her advocacy of a more active state calls for rethinking our capabilities and role of government within the…

How to Make Britain Great again

Respected financial journalist Alex Brummer and Brexit supporter was offering an argument for optimism in his must read book The Great British Reboot, and offers a manifesto for how to re-engineer the UK economy. Brummer’s  prescriptions align with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s political prospectus, despite the gap between strategy and implementation remains wide apart. His analysis of…