Hello. I’m Burnham Banks and I studied economics in the late 80s and early 90s. I’m still studying economics today and am still no wiser. This blog is a journal, a record of my thoughts and experiences. If we are destined to repeat our mistakes, we should at least repeat them faithfully. If not, then perhaps the past is a mischievous guide and we should try something new.
Fiction?: Matter and Interactions.
Sunday, 21 April 2024 | 3:08 pm
Each force or interaction is a topological space. The interaction between two or more spaces produces physical properties such as charge and mass. The observation space is a factor in how matter and interactions manifest. Each space is induced by the physical matter it manifests. The angular displacement between two or more spaces influences the
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Blended Finance 1.0.1
Friday, 23 February 2024 | 1:05 pm
The purpose of blended finance is to attract capital to impact investing by pooling risk and then redistributing it in such a way that it addresses the financial and impact objectives of various investor types. Philanthropic capital is relatively scarce compared with financial capital. To attract more capital, of all types, to fund impact investments,
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Ten Second Into The Future 2024
Friday, 02 February 2024 | 8:45 am
Inflation has dominated investors’ attention since 2021. In 2023, core inflation cooled from 6.6% to 4.0%, a significant move yet well above the 2.0% target of the Federal Reserve. Meanwhile, the Fed raised rates 4 times from 4.50% to 5.50% and while it signaled that market expectations for rate cuts in 2024 might be premature,
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Blended Finance 1.1
Friday, 26 January 2024 | 7:57 am
Blended finance is an efficient mechanism for intermediating capital in impact investing. There is scope for further development. An important innovation would be to establish a correspondence between impact (shortfall) risk and credit risk. This would require a generally accepted standard and framework for measuring and analysing impact metrics with a view to translating such
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Environmental and Social Imperatives
Friday, 29 September 2023 | 11:11 am
Our Mission is a simple one. We have only this planet to support us and must therefore maintain its habitability so that we may persist. The gargantuan scale of this mission requires that we collaborate as a species. We will not be able to collaborate with a broken social compact. This contextualises the environmental and social
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