Shouldn’t people have the power?

  • Matt Orsagh, Arketa Institute

What is the capacity that Pensions & Endowments derive from their capacity as large, programmatic and self-perpetuating “forever machines’, under the circumstnaces now prevailing?


The current rules push people out, and put experts in charge.

But is the expertise that these experts are expert in really the expertise we need to power our “forrver machines”, forever?

This is the question that drives me on this passion project, to change the rules of who has the power to decide the right way for pensions, mostly, but also endowments, for universities and foundations, to allocate the aggregations of society’s “safe” money that we entrust to their plenary powers of discretionary authority, within the constraints of prudence and loyalty, as capital for business to curate the technologies that curate the choices that curation the economy that curates society that curates the future, as our true frontier.

The current rules gives that power to securities trading markets professionals.

The new rules give that power to us!

Hello, and welcome!

I am Tim MacDonald.

< This is a portrait of me drawn by my granddaughter, Ellie, when she was 4 year old.

I am a philospher by education and a lawyer by profession, with specialzed expertise in US partnership income tax and transactions law.

I learned about Money and Finance and Enterprise and the Economy from the perspective of the United State Internal Revenue Code.

That perspecitive shows something very different from what you see when you look at the economy from the perspective of what we now called, in common parlance, variously, the Capital Markets, the Financial Markets, the Markets and the Financia System.

I am the publisher, producer, editor and composer of this digital experience, as a passion porject o show you what I have learned to see, as my way of inviting you to join with me in promoting a new set of rules for how the people can, should and will take over the reigns for controlling the power of our pensions.

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