assets and liabilities
The Promise and Risks of Receiving Appreciated Assets
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It’s not enough to focus on return; you must also take risk-adjusted return into account.
It’s not enough to focus on return; you must also take risk-adjusted return into account.
If efficiency requires us to send slaves into caves to extract metals and create toxic waste that destroys the planet, notes Douglas Rushkoff, then maybe we should be less efficient. This interview, the second article in a four-part series on rebuilding the economy, explores the inherent problems with our current extractive economy and calls on nonprofits to promote an economy that is both sustainable and equitable.
When the value of a unit of currency increases by a factor of seven in six months and then falls by nearly two-thirds in two months, only to rise 50 percent again, that might be a sign of high risk and volatility. Nonetheless, charitable donations in the form of “cryptocurrencies” such as Bitcoin and Ethereum can be expected to continue to rise.
Blockchain software is a decentralized ledger that cannot be changed, can be viewed by anyone, and has entries that are verifiable and trustworthy.
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are gaining favor as an alternative means of exchange.
Even when you are doing very innovative work, some pitifully recognizable organizational development sinkholes can open up to bury you.