I'd love to hear people chime in on this. I've tried to find ways to invest the tiny amount of my retirement contributions in places/things that I care about. I've failed miserably. I finally gave up and put some money into this:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/COEAX?ltr=1 I'm slowly losing my money. But I figure I'm at least, in part, paying myself (if my city takes on debt) or loaning/contributing money/fluidity to my local cities. If I'm misguided on that, I'd appreciate some education. The next time I move, I plan on doing the same thing in that region. On 01/26/2017 12:42 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > Speaking of Investing: I suspect that more than a few folks here have > significant financial assets. I'm wondering what people believe here about > "socially responsible investing". About NOW seems like a good time to > (re)evaluate any such strategies? > > I *did* enjoy hearing Chomsky answer this question at a NAFTA talk in ABQ 15 > years ago with the simple statement "Socially Responsible Investing is a > contradiction in terms". There was a loud titter among the roughly 50% > students and a deafening silence among the other 50% Yuppie/Academic/Retireds. > > I think of our *consumer* dollars as votes, it seems like our *investment* > dollars are at least as important? -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
