April 21
Celebrity Net Worth – Meet The Under-The-Radar Immigrant Black Doctor Who Has Made A Half-Billion Dollar Fortune While Revolutionizing Alzheimer’s Treatment. Features Dr. Herriot Tabuteau ’89.
Street Insider – Oaktree Real Estate News. Mentions Cary Kleinman ’97, chief legal officer at Oaktree.
Seven Days (Vermont) – Obituary: Karen Oelschlaeger, 1984-2021: Woman who died of cancer was grateful for Vermont’s Death With Dignity law. Features Karen Oelschlaeger ’07, who “double majored in psychology and Spanish literature, receiving high honors for her psychology thesis titled ‘Feminist Rants. ”
April 22
Fat Pitch Financials – Operation HOPE Adds Will Lansing, CEO of FICO, To Global Board of Advisors. Features Will Lansing ’80, P’16, chief executive officer of Fair Isaac Corporation.
Any carbon pricing coming from the corporate world is likely to be a massive problem. In Massachusetts, the first carbon tax bill proposed was a massive transfer of wealth from house holds to business based on their rebate formulas. Written by a conservative economy consultant shop for a clueless neoliberal state senator, it took significant effort from labor and progressive tax organization for him to see the problem – but he’s still championing carbon tax, but it’s better now, better believe it.
BlakeFelix
I’m not saying that it’s going to be handled well, or that rebates are a good idea, but climate change is a massive problem also. We can’t, IMO, wait for a perfect solution. The solution will likely cause problems, just hopefully problems that are easier to deal with than ecosystem collapse and mass famine.