Tag: Finance
RIP PLC: The Rise of the Ghost Corporation
From the mid-19th century to the end of the 20th, one form of economic organisation seemed to be displacing all others—the limited...
Radical Uncertainty: Video Recordings
Although future events have been cancelled due to coronavirus, several talks about Radical Uncertainty have been recorded. The discussion and questions at...
Ethical Finance
I was introduced to Catholic social teaching through the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. MacIntyre brought the concept of Aristotelian virtue ethics into...
Pensions are stuck in a doom loop
In 1991 the ebullient fraudster Robert Maxwell disappeared from his yacht and was found to have looted the Daily Mirror pension funds to support his crumbling...
Five Books: Best Books for the Beginner Investor
John recently spoke to Five Books on the five books he recommends to people who are considering starting investing. Find the full interview here,...
Moving Beyond “Capitalism”
https://soundcloud.com/curioio/john-kay-moving-beyond/s-1dfFJ
I wish we would stop using the word Capitalism.
It is a 19th-century term, derived from 19th-century economic philosophy. But today people who would run...
Equity markets are thriving but are they relevant?
The equity markets with which we are familiar came into being in the 19th century to finance railways and railroads. Railways and railroads were...
Bitcoin: Boon or Bubble?
https://soundcloud.com/curioio/john-kay-bitcoin-boon-or/s-UenQt
Boon or Bubble?
Is Bitcoin a bubble, a scam, a Ponzi scheme? Or a transformational innovation which will change forever the functioning of the global...
Risk, the retail investor and disastrous new rules
I am a board director of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust (SMIT), a £6bn investment fund based in Edinburgh. You can receive material about the...
The real meaning of risk for retail investors: John Kay takes...
John was recently interviewed about a forthcoming FT Money article by Claer Barrett. Listen to the interview via the FT, via Soundcloud, or subscribe...
