by Jason Apollo Voss | 28 02 2018 | Blog
(Part III of a series on the future of banking and finance) By now I hope to have convinced you in Part I and Part II of this series on 21st Century Finance, that things are never going to be the same. My thesis is that new technologies (discussed extensively in Part...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 02 01 2018 | Blog
Over 100,000 Swiss citizens signed a petition to hold a constitutional referendum to end fractional reserve banking. Yes, really! That petition was certified on 24 December 2015 and a vote will be held sometime Sunday, 10 June 2018. Switzerland, that scion of banking,...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 20 12 2017 | Blog
(Part II of a series on the future of banking and finance) This column follows my overview comparing 21st Century Finance vs. 20th Century Finance. Hopefully I convinced you that banking and finance are likely never to see the same profit margins as in...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 11 2017 | Best of the Blog, Blog
(Part I of a series on the future of banking and finance) Finance’s 20th century business lines – their go-to money makers – are all in jeopardy of being destroyed. Primarily this is due to finance’s blatant disregard for its customers’ actual needs. This is the...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 01 08 2017 | Blog
C. Thomas Howard and I authored a series of posts entitled The Active Equity Renaissance earlier this year. We did so because we believe that it is hard but not impossible to “beat the market.” We outline many of the directions the investment management...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 24 07 2017 | Blog, Where Markets Fail
Markets are less perfect than commonly assumed. I have discussed their inability to price unknowns; the blindness of the assumptions that underlie market activity; that the implicit presumption that market fungibility bears consequences; and that markets are not...
