Steve Keen and Friends is a regular one hour live conversation between myself, Daniel (Dan) Sanderson, and Tyrone (Ty) Keynes, at 5pm London time every Saturday. With our interests in non-mainstream economics, climate change, system dynamics and philosophy, the conversation can go anywhere. And sometimes we have guests, as we are today with Carmen Medina.
Her profile on the National Security Institute website opens with this paragraph:
Carmen, a retired Senior Federal Executive with 32 years’ experience in the Intelligence Community, is a recognized national and international expert on intelligence analysis, strategic thinking, diversity of thought, and innovation and intrapreneurs in the public sector. She is the co-author of the book: Rebels At Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within and of the landmark Deloitte University Press paper on Diversity’s New Fronter: Diversity of Thought and the Future of the Workplace. Her story as a heretic and change agent at CIA is featured in Wharton School professor Adam Grant’s bestseller Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
As a card-carrying non-conformist myself, I'm looking forward to meeting her.
You can watch the conversation (and pose questions) through the YouTube link here.
I also want to apologise for my relative silence recently. The reason is a consultancy I'm working on for an activist body in finance over how financial advisors have unwittingly downplayed the dangers of climate change by following the advice of mainstream economists on global warming.
Writing the report is taking all my time, and in fact the situation is worse than I expected--finance companies have taken the trivialised dangers developed by economists and made them even more trivial still in terms of their hypothetical impact upon people's retirement portfolios.
To give just one example, UniSuper, my own superannuation fund (similar to a US 401K) has told its members--including me of course--that a 4.3C increase in global average temperatures is "an acceptable risk" to our portfolios.
At 4.3C above pre-industrial levels, your portfolio, if you have one, will consist of sticks and stones and, if you're really rich, a bow and arrow.
I'll circulate the report once it's written and approved by the firm I'm consulting to--probably in January or February.
Are these broadcasts recorded and made available ?