Brad Swanson

Socially responsible investor, adjunct finance professor, former Foreign Service Officer

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

I just learned that my book, Profit vs Progress, has been shortlisted for Best Business Reporting Book by SABEW, the largest association of business journalists. Some pretty strong competition, but I am hoping for the best!
https://t.co/QNMBARYlUN

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Why do good people make corporations do bad things? For me, the answer is personal, as this story from my days in the diplomatic service reveals.
https://t.co/3cwXdQ5PmH
#FSJ
#foreignservicejournal
#sustainability

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

When AI thinks for students, both students, and, then, civilization, suffer gravely. My experience as a teacher is a red flag. Our only hope is to provide AI-free spaces where students can learn to research and write analytically the old-fashioned way.
https://t.co/WuciqKDIpq

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

The verdict is in: sustainable finance is mostly pure capital markets investment with a misleading label. Find out the game works, and how to revise the rules to make it more fair.
https://t.co/WtlWDHoAJL
#finance
#sustainablefinance
#sustainability
@mitpress

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Americans want a path to citizenship for illegal aliens but they also want strong borders. If Democrats want to take advantage of the former, they have to unite behind the latter, where they have a huge public trust deficit
https://t.co/WSluSJ6BXg

[The Nation @thenation]

Easing widespread fears of uncontrolled immigration would allow Democrats to credibly push for a path to citizenship for unauthorized migrants without criminal records.
https://t.co/BojAPQ1fFI

[The Nation @thenation]

In the corporation’s version of Newspeak, “carbon emissions” means whatever it wants—and any investment in renewables is just a facade.
https://t.co/ynLrPceYt5

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

In Exxon’s Orwellian World, Lower Emissions Means More Oil Production https://t.co/qgN1dzxJhp

[D.D.Guttenplan @ddguttenplan]

Why is #EbenezerScrooge the new GOP poster boy? Brad Swanson explains @thenation: Republicans Are Gaslighting Us on Poverty https://t.co/bR2r5auc5g

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Just because the right wing in America hates ESG does not mean the left should support it. In fact, progressives should reject it, too, but for the right reasons
https://t.co/I5k0lfITgA
#ESG #sustainable

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

If ESG funds don't have higher ESG scores than non-ESG funds, umm, what's the point?
https://t.co/sA4KFQuGlI
#ESG

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Afghanistan is Vietnam redux. When will we learn? https://t.co/UJPBww0DG1

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Afghanistan is Vietnam redux. When will we learn? https://t.co/UJPBww0DG1

[Business for a Better World Center @B4BWMason]

Hey #MasonNation, curious about #ESG investing? Want to know how it's changing the financial industry? Then you don't want to miss this great panel. @JasonHowellCo @bradswansonjbs
https://t.co/tZyXKD5F3s

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Am I the only one who finds it appropriate that the “tidal basin bombshell” earned a degree in ... marine science? Fanne Foxe, Who Plunged Into the Tidal Basin and Emerged Famous, Dies at 84 https://t.co/rN387Nwhoo

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

@realDonaldTrump Dear Georgia Republicans, if Pres Trump is right that GA Senate election is illegal and invalid, should you abstain from voting?

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Kudos to Steve Descano for ending cash bail. It’s unfair and ineffective. Ending it shows you can be both compassionate and tough on crime https://t.co/JM1pbGHIwh

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Grasping at legal straws is pure Trump. He used courts in bankruptcies to get rich while losing billions of other people's money. These cases are just political theater to keep his base energized, funded, as usual, with OPM. #ElectionDay #TrumpConceded
https://t.co/GLuCSp52ol

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Amazingly, the police have no duty to protect an individual against imminent harm. Here's a quick brief, which starts, like all good commentaries should, with a quote from Bob Dylan.
https://t.co/npRea6TthZ
#PoliceReform

[Brad Swanson @bradswansonjbs]

Thos Jefferson HS should run a lottery among well qualified candidates instead of a “spuriously precise” admissions process that can’t avoid being arbitrary and unfair https://t.co/goQh2yqWsE