Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff · 27 Feb 2025 · 330pp · 127,791 words
Government Debt: Causes and Implications,” in Building a More Resilient U.S. Economy, ed. Melissa S. Kearney, Justin Schardin, and Luke Pardue (Washington, D.C.: Aspen Institute, 2023), 18–43. 8. Congressional Budget Office, The Demographic Outlook 2023 to 2053 (January 2023). 9. Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan, The Great Demographic Reversal
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two on the property). Little Nell HOTEL $$$ ( 970-920-4600; www.thelittlenell.com; 675 E Durant Ave; r from $545; ) This is a long-time Aspen institution at the foot of Aspen Mountain. Gas-burning fireplaces, high-thread-count linens and rich color schemes make up the elegant modernist decor. An adventure
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas · 27 Aug 2018 · 296pp · 98,018 words
by “giving back”—regardless of the fact that they may have caused serious societal problems as they built their fortunes. Elite networking forums like the Aspen Institute and the Clinton Global Initiative groom the rich to be self-appointed leaders of social change, taking on the problems people like them have been
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and race and privilege and justice, and the role that we all play in having more or less justice.” Walter Isaacson, the president of the Aspen Institute, one of the temples of MarketWorld, would be interviewing him onstage, and Walker knew exactly what Isaacson would want: Darren Walker’s improbable life story
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the board of trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art, vice chair of the board of trustees of Lincoln Center, a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and former chair of the Center for Arts Education and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. She was also a co-owner of the New
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said this, he could already hear the globalists’ objection: But we aren’t engaging in politics when we come to CGI or Davos or the Aspen Institute or Skoll. We are just helping people. “Probably people who get together in these congregations don’t think of what they’re doing as politics
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said. He had been ensnared, perhaps, by a dominant story of his age. In 2001, he was chosen for the Henry Crown Fellowship of the Aspen Institute. The fellowship is a prestigious finishing school to assist the transition from making it in business to making the world a better place. Its mission
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a good night’s sleep as I think about this,” he said. Whatever Kassoy’s private doubts, B Corps were championed all over MarketWorld. The Aspen Institute had named not only Kassoy but all three cofounders of B Lab as Henry Crown Fellows. The Ford Foundation had given B Lab a grant
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powerful people that they are not the saviors they think they are. Four years earlier, I had been named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute. You may recall it from these pages as the program that seeks to deploy a “new breed of leaders” against “the world’s most intractable
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with my classmates and exchanged my struggles with theirs and ended up being the officiant at one of their weddings. As I nestled into the Aspen Institute’s universe, there were other, more dubious pleasures. I began to have friends with private jets; sometimes I flew in them. I mingled with the
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get the tiger-print bathrobe and who the leopard-themed one. Even as I savored these luxuries and connections, I found something amiss about the Aspen Institute. Here were all these rich and powerful people coming together and speaking about giving back, and yet the people who seemed to reap most of
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merely seek to make a difference but also effectively claim ownership of “changing the world.” It was peculiar that many of our conversations at the Aspen Institute about democracy and the “good society” occurred in the Koch Building, named after a family that had done so much to undermine democracy and the
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my back. A billionaire came up and thanked me for voicing what has been the struggle of her life. Some in the leadership of the Aspen Institute began frantically asking who had allowed this outrage to occur. That evening at the bar, some cheered me, others glared at me icily, and a
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the same. I tell you this so that you know the book’s origins, and so that I can give my first thanks—to the Aspen Institute, for embracing me and pulling back the curtain on elite-led social change. And I tell it because this backstory makes the following acknowledgment as
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words
AI May Already Be Conscious,” The Byte, February 13, 2022, https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-already-sentient. “Technology & National Security: Maintaining America’s Edge”: Aspen Institute, January 31, 2019, https://www.amazon.com/Technology-National-Security-Maintaining-Americas/dp/0578427958. “And by 2025 you’re done”: Danzig ran across the analogy
Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles
by Michael Gross · 1 Nov 2011 · 613pp · 200,826 words
new medical sciences building. They donated $20 million for a Resnick Sustainability Institute to study energy technology at Caltech, and have given generously to the Aspen Institute.41 Less noisily, big money’s gone to Conservation International and Bard College, which runs a charter school, the Paramount Bard Academy, one of a
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. Department of Agriculture’s research service, which has studied navel orangeworms in pistachios. They also give their time. Lynda sits on the board of the Aspen Institute, where she chairs the Communications Committee; UCLA Medical Sciences; the Prostate Cancer Foundation; and the Milken Family Foundation. She is also a trustee of the
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resort communities, they were disdained by locals as part-time residents—and showy ones at that. Even after the couple made large donations to the Aspen Institute (along with the Aspen Skiing Corporation, one of the two tent-pole institutions in the former mining town) and Lynda was named to the board
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standards.” After their suit was rejected, the Resnicks continued to maneuver to delay construction and the imbroglio came up again three years later when the Aspen Institute announced plans to renovate an auditorium on its campus and name it for the Resnicks. Previously, it and the building around it had been named
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
by Bill Browder · 11 Apr 2022 · 335pp · 100,154 words
with Vladimir Putin, and that our lives were completely normal. Still, I had some work to do. In late July, I was invited to the Aspen Institute to give a talk about the Magnitsky Act. The Institute is an international think tank and conference center that regularly brings together activists, entrepreneurs, politicians
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be inspired. There was a cocktail reception at the end of the first day at the Doerr-Hosier Center, the main reception hall of the Aspen Institute. David, who was about to start at Stanford, was excited to rub shoulders with a handful of famous Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and I was excited
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and I stopped momentarily in our tracks. I squinted through the rain. I didn’t recognize her and noticed that she didn’t have an Aspen Institute badge hanging around her neck like everyone else at the conference. I was suddenly hit with a shot of adrenaline. My fight-or-flight instincts
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serious. “Go!” I shouted. He got it. Dropping his phone in the center console, he put the car in gear and began to drive. The Aspen Institute is essentially a pedestrian zone, and we couldn’t just peel out. As we left the cul-de-sac, the man who had joined the
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. Between the jet lag and the adrenaline, I only managed a few hours of sleep that night. Early the next morning, I drove to the Aspen Institute. Fortunately, Aspen is the one of the few places between Salt Lake City and Denver with a functioning TV studio. It’s usually used to
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within an hour I was booked on more than a dozen news shows. I threw on a jacket and tie and headed back to the Aspen Institute’s small television studio. I knew that I would be stuck in that black foam-padded room in the basement of the Doerr-Hosier Center
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they did, he could at least make sure the right people knew about it. The last time David and I had encountered trouble at the Aspen Institute, he was a teenager, but now he was a full-grown 22-year-old man. Having him with me made me feel a little better
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. I also got some comfort from the fact that the Aspen Institute was kicking off the Aspen Security Forum that day. This was an international conference that would bring together luminaries from the national security establishment, as
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. Now that he was, he expected an automatic and vociferous rejection from Washington. For him, the continuing silence was truly shocking. Before returning to the Aspen Institute the next morning, I called Mike again to see how his Washington outreach was going. “I’ve spoken to officials at NSC, State, and Justice
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, John, 230 Aslan, 52–53, 54 Aspen, Colorado trips, of Browder, 108–113, 179–181, 182–187, 219, 250–252, 256, 277–282, 283–289 Aspen Institute (Colorado), 109–111, 252–253, 281–282, 285–289 Aspen Security Forum, 286–289 Aspen Times, 112 Aspen trips, 249 Associated Press (AP), 180, 254
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arrest of Browder, 1–10 Red Notice / arrest warrants, 1–10, 95–96, 107, 203n, 269, 270–272, 292–293 Wanted List, 267–269 Jason (Aspen Institute cameraman), 252, 281–282, 286 Jay-Z, 192 Jinek (Dutch TV program), 133–137 Jinek, Eva, 134–136 Johnson, Boris, 9–10 JPMorgan, 29, 32
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe · 3 Oct 2022 · 689pp · 134,457 words
Finance blog, Aug. 28, 2019. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “the Aspen Consensus”: Anand Giridharadas, “The Thriving World, the Wilting World, and You” (speech, Aspen Institute’s Action Forum, July 29, 2015), posted on Medium.com. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT ExxonMobil said it was “all the buzz”: See “Five
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
by Rupert Darwall · 2 Oct 2017 · 451pp · 115,720 words
, Ford, McArthur, and Pew—gave them the booty. Corporate and foundation wealth and power were handed to them on a plate. Already in 1962, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies had run a program on climate in the eleventh and sixteenth centuries—“the subject entailed an enquiry into the ways sharp climatic
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changes could affect the conditions of life on earth.”61 The Aspen Institute had been founded in 1949 as a celebration of humanism and German culture (1949 was the bicentenary of Goethe’s birth). After the death of
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convene, for the first time, a major conference on the environment. The proposal went forward. It would be held in Stockholm in June 1972. The Aspen Institute’s activities were then geared around the impending UN conference. Wilson established the Aspen Environment and Quality of Life Program. Leading environmentalists who appeared at
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New York, ending up with the International Chamber of Commerce formally pledging support for the UN program on the environment. At the conference itself, the Aspen Institute hosted a Distinguished Lecture Series financed by the International Population Institute. Speakers included Gunnar Myrdal, Barbara Ward, and the Club of Rome’s Aurelio Peccei
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Amnesty International Andropov, Yuri Antholis, William Anti-Nuclear Contact Book (1977) Apple, Inc. Arrhenius, Svante Nobel Prize for Chemistry recipient Asbeck, Frank Ash, Timothy Garton Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Aspen Environment and Quality of Life Program Association of German Industrial Energy Companies Associated Press Atlantic, The Atlantic Alliance Aust, Stefan Australian
The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life
by Pam Grout · 14 May 2007 · 304pp · 87,702 words
, you can spend your days making photography and your evenings soaking up world-class performing arts. Aspen is home to the Aspen Music Festival, the Aspen Institute, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, the Aspen Center for Physics, Theatre Aspen, the Aspen Art Museum, the Aspen Filmfest, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, and on and
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab · 13 Nov 2023 · 618pp · 179,407 words
to make change happen back in the U.S.” Another group that organizes trips with the foundation’s money (alongside many other projects) is the Aspen Institute, a Washington, DC, think tank and recipient of more than $100 million from Gates. This includes a 2007 charitable grant for $664,000 “to inform
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Hopkins University “to train U.S. journalists in covering global health and development issues by providing fellowships and reporting opportunities” and $165,000 to the Aspen Institute “to identify how journalism training can improve the quantity and quality of media coverage of health issues in the developing world.” A more liberal analysis
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failing to disclose their funding from the Gates Foundation. The foundation also found ways to elevate its message in front of Congress, like funding the Aspen Institute and the Postsecondary National Policy Institute to organize retreats for congressional staffers to learn about education policy. Gates’s multipronged political campaign worked—or seemed
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polio eradication.“To change hearts and minds, we need good stories,” the Gates Foundation reports. The Moth works hand in hand with the Gates-funded Aspen Institute’s New Voices Fellowship, which seeks to elevate these voices in the news. The group boasts having produced nearly 2,000 public op-eds from
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freely engage in similar travel activities with state legislators. Public records from the state of New York show that the Gates Foundation, working with the Aspen Institute, proposed to the state’s education department that it send “up to seven” people to Washington, DC, to discuss one of the foundation’s educational
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, Marcia Angelou, Maya Angola Aniston, Jennifer Annan, Kofi antibiotics antitrust Apollo Global Management Apple computers Appraising Microsoft Arjuna Capital Armstrong, Lance Arthun, Erika Asahi Shimbun Aspen Institute New Voices Fellowship Associated Press AstraZeneca Atlantic Atuire, Caesar A. Au, Wayne Auletta, Ken Avahan Avanade Badass Teachers Association Baker, Dean Ballmer, Steve Bangladesh Bankman
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