DPO Boot Camp for Massachusetts and California enterprises!

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Crowdfunding

Join Jenny Kassan, CEO of Cutting Edge Capital, for a free one-hour webinar to learn how you can raise money using a Direct Public Offering (DPO). Learn how DPOs help you Raise money from supporters in alignment with your goals and values Create a permanent source of financing on reasonable terms Stop worrying about raising …

Empowering Women – For Progress and Profit

Jay OwenThe Power of Yin

  Empowering Women – For Progress and Profit Impacting Companies, Changing the World In this plenary session, three dynamic women will explore how investors can mobilize our tools and influence to help corporations understand the importance of women’s empowerment, its relevance to the company’s value proposition, competitive advantage, and long-term …

Cutting Edge Capital is Open for Investment!

Jay OwenCommunity Development Solutions, Crowdfunding

  June 2014 IN THIS ISSUE CEC News Blog Roll Client News Upcoming Events CEC News Cutting Edge Capital is Open for Investment!             We are pleased to announce that our DPO is now LIVE on our website! On June 11th, we officially launched our …

Electronic Bulls, Bears and Pigs: Predicting the Next “Flash Crash”

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Articles by Hazel Henderson

By Hazel Henderson Remember the old Wall Street adage, “Bulls make money; bears make money; pigs go broke!”? Today, not so much. Pigs often win, particularly those armed with computers and algorithms. Speed and complexity are the tools of those seeking alpha, hiring quants to create ever more complex derivatives …

GreenMoney June14_Seeds, Soil and Sustainability

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News, Sustainability News

Good farming, Good food, Good health    by Cliff Feigenbaum, Founder, GreenMoney I especially enjoy our Sustainable Agriculture and Organics issues because they always break new ground (pun intended) and I always learn something new. In this edition, Laura Batcha of Organic Trade Association looks at the $35 billion marketplace …

BQE: Bilateral Currency Swaps , Planck Foundation

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

BQE: Bilateral Currency Swaps Ethical Markets  thanks the Planck Foundation for permission to  post this useful new approach –  Hazel Henderson, Editor   BQE: Bilateral Currency Swaps Traditional QE only leads to carry trade (a money flow to high yield / high risk foreign financial markets) and thereby does nothing …

Crowdsourcing.org – Fundrise Announces $31M Funding Round

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, May 28 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS Fundrise Announces $31M Funding Round — Fundrise, the Washington, DC-based equity crowdfunding platform for real estate projects, announced this morning that it closed a $31 million funding round. The round was led by Chinese social networking site Renren, CEO …

The Economic Case for Divesting from Fossil Fuels

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News, Resource Efficiency

Garvin Jabusch, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Officer, Green Alpha Advisors   The fossil fuels industry, big oil, big coal, natural gas, and its allied sectors, including some large financial institutions, will not quietly or willingly retire into the history of ideas whose time has passed. That fossil fuels represent the single …

real-world economics review – issue no. 67″ : Loanable funds vs. endogenous money: Krugman is wrong, Keen is right

Jay OwenBeyond GDP

real-world economics review – issue no. 67 real-world economics review – Subscribers: 24,474       Subscribe here      Blog      ISSN 1755-9472  – A journal of the World Economics Association (WEA) 12,557 members, join here – Sister open access journals: Economic Thought and World Economic Review  – back issues at www.paecon.net    recent issues: 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57  Issue no. 67, 9 May 2014     http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue67/whole67.pdf     You can download the whole issue as …

Why TNC and JPMorgan Chase are investing $1 billion in nature

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Why TNC and JPMorgan Chase are investing $1 billion in nature By Elsa Wenzel Published April 29, 2014 The Nature Conservancy and JPMorgan Chase have a bold goal: Raise $1 billion over the next three years toward projects that protect agriculture, fisheries, water and land. These power brokers in conservation …