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Author Archives: Geoff Finch

September 2008

Table Talk: In which the father attempts to unpack Social Security for his teenager

This comes under the heading of no baby boomer should talk to his teenager about social security.
I have one teenage son still living at home.  We were having an after dinner chat last night about politics and “the system.”  My rant was that none of the current batch of politicians is even talking about Social [...]

August 2008

Five Lessons Bankers Must Relearn in the 21st Century

Former Morgan Stanley chief, Phillip Purcell, identifies five lessons bankers must relearn in the 21st Century [the supremacy of profits over revenues, compensation based on sustained results; leverage cuts both ways; diversification; risk management as a business culture]. Geoff Finch describes two more…

July 2008

African Reflections | The New Face(s) Of Business in East Africa

Geoff Finch, InsideWork’s financial expert, returns from doing business in Rwanda. What he experienced there is nothing short of hope for the emergence of a new African economy.

Does Africa Matter?

InsideWork’s Geoff Finch, just back from Africa, offers a thoughtful reviews of Giles Bolton’s, Africa Doesn’t Matter: How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It. Spoiler alert: Africa matters.

October 2006

David Warsh: Knowledge and the Wealth Of Nations

A Story of Economic Discovery

David Warsh has given us a non-technical survey of the theories of developmental economics from Adam Smith’s great work by a similar name down to the present day.

May 2006

The Hard Way

Learning on the Job

Geoff Finch recalls hard lessons on how to treat people.

April 2006

A High Calling

What is a person’s responsibility to provide for his family? Is church work a higher calling than, say education or finance or plumbing? Geoff Finch wrestles with these questions and a whole lot more.

Justice…with a Twist

The miracle we celebrate on Easter is the judgement after human judgement; the overturned verdict that transforms an earthshaking perversion of justice into the greatest good this world has ever seen.