Capitalism

• NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueprint Capital Advisors LLC ("Blueprint" or the "Firm"), a $1.7 billion registered investment advisor focused on alternative investment funds and diverse manager consulting, today announced the establishment of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusive Capitalism Power100 List ("DEIC Power100").
• They have invested in companies of underrepresented founders and owners of diverse-led companies, and driven inclusion at the board and at staff levels.
• It is our hope that the DEIC Power100 becomes an institution and community that continues to acknowledge and celebrate positive leadership and applauds collaboration towards a common vision of diversity, equity, and inclusive capitalism.
• Blueprint Capital is today also announcing the DEIC Power100 Icons category honorees.

• The event is co-sponsored by the Center and the Brown Club of Greater Miami .
• In his book, Frank Altman takes modern capitalism to task.
• A New Capitalism: Creating a Just Economy That Works for All, by Frank Altman, is now available.
• The book is published with Forbes Books, the exclusive business book publishing imprint of Forbes, and is available on Amazon today.

• For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
• The latest instalment, Nemesis, dealing with the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison years, is the fourth of these series since the pioneering Labor in Power screened in 1993 chronicling the Hawke-Keating era.
• The Howard Years (2008) and The Killing Season (2015) followed examining respectively the Howard and Rudd-Gillard governments.
• By contrast, The Killing Season and Nemesis focus predominantly on the leadership wars that blighted Australian politics between 2007 and 2022.
• The most striking takeaway from Nemesis is that the Coalition’s decade in office from 2013 to 2022 was a time of abject irresponsibility.

The Abbott years

• It was a catalogue of swingeing cuts and broken promises (Abbott had pledged no cuts to health or education during the 2013 election campaign).
• The Abbott government never really recovered.
• Chastened by that result, Abbott then caused incredulity among colleagues by proclaiming that “good government begins today”.
• According to Turnbull, Abbott did not welcome the approach, telling him “to fuck off”.

The Turnbull years

• The public were relieved to see the back of Abbott and welcomed enthusiastically the ostensibly progressive Turnbull.
• Attorney-general in the government, George Brandis, refers to the Faustian bargain Turnbull had made to win the prime ministership.
• Dutton, the right-wing hard man who Turnbull scathingly describes as “a thug”, challenged for the leadership, losing relatively narrowly.
• A revelation about events during that febrile week is that Turnbull considered heading off his opponents by calling an election.
• The episode ends with Turnbull offering another pungent character assessment, this time of his successor: “duplicitous”.

The Morrison years

• It errs towards generosity to Morrison, not fully capturing why his leadership became a byword for inauthenticity, a prime minister whose obsession with the theatre of politics consistently trumped substance.
• The episode recalls many of the notorious statements made by Morrison, which by suggesting he was evading responsibility, was a bully or lacked empathy corroded his public image, especially among women voters.
• Asked about the comments, Morrison admits to poor choices of words.
• Nemesis shows that the COVID pandemic was both a blessing and curse for the Morrison government.
• Morrison then expended dwindling political capital by fruitlessly pursuing religious rights protections, causing ructions with Liberal moderates.
• We are left with the suspicion that once again Morrison is bending the truth.

A decade of banality and pettiness

• Participants in the documentary draw on classical allusions in making sense of the chaos.
• We are told, for instance, that the leadership feud between Abbott and Turnbull was Shakespearean.
• Yet what Nemesis exposes is the banality of these events and the pettiness of the actors.
• The post-Menzies Liberal triumvirate of Harold Holt, John Gorton and William McMahon were respectively overwhelmed by the office, reckless and pygmy like.

Paul Strangio received funding from the Australian Research Council in the past.

• Big Path Capital (“Big Path”), impact investing’s investment bank, announces the 2024 MO 100 Top Impact CEO Ranking .
• The list recognizes 100 top executives who are building positive social and environmental impact at high-growth companies.
• The 2024 MO 100 awardees demonstrate the value and opportunity found in a stakeholder-focused business model that benefits shareholders as well as workers, customers, communities, and the environment.
• By highlighting these dynamic leaders who are shaping a more regenerative and inclusive economy, the 2024 MO 100 provides inspiration and validation for other businesses.