Can the U.S. Financial System Survive the Revolution?

Challenge ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
Stephen Rousseas
Keyword(s):  
Financial System ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Revolution

The New Financial System

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
Luciana Caruso de Assis
Keyword(s):  
Financial System ◽  
Lower Price ◽  
The Revolution

This chapter shows the revolution that is happening in the financial system, having as main actor the technological companies—the fintechs—that don't have financial knowhow. The traditional banks didn't structure their business trying to attend the client's needs. The clients always suited themselves to banks' services. The fintechs are changing this reality by putting the client in another baseline, filling the gaps left by the banks, offering new services, and acting in places where banks have never gone before. The fintechs are offering these services with a lower price and more quality for the clients.

"The Smile of Lenin": Inside Cuba's Revolution

Worldview ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Lorrin Philipson
Keyword(s):  
Right Wing ◽  
China Sea ◽  
New Development ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Revolution

The recent frantic scramble for freedom by thousands of Cubans via the Peruvian embassy and in chaotically dispatched boats is an eruption of long-simmering anguish, not a sudden, new development. But the island might just as well be in the China Sea as ninety miles from the U.S., considering how little is known or acknowledged about life under the Revolution. There are several reasons for the misconceptions that have prevailed these twenty years. Castro's brilliantly orchestrated propaganda managed to conceal the darker realities, while in the U.S. the shrillness of right-wing attacks detracted from their credibility. Then there were the leftists, most of whom regarded Cuba as sacred territory: One did not dare criticize Castro's regime for fear of dooming revolution elsewhere.

R. Buckminster Fuller, the Expo ’67 Pavilion and the Atoms for Peace Program

Leonardo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 486-492
Author(s):  
Rebecca Dalvesco
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
World War ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
Buckminster Fuller ◽  
Expo 67 ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Geodesic Dome ◽  
The Revolution

Since the end of World War II, the U.S. government has embraced the rhetoric of the peaceful use of the atom. Following the government’s lead, architect-designer-philosopher Richard Buckminster Fuller espoused similar ideas. Like U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and other “atoms for peace” enthusiasts, Fuller thought that the revolution then occurring in architecture was an outgrowth of the peaceful atom. And, like Johnson, Fuller believed that technology based on the atom did not just favor Americans but could be applied for the benefit of all humanity. Fuller thought atomic technology could help extend humankind’s knowledge base and thus be applied to develop better architecture. This article explains how Fuller, like politicians of the time, believed that the potential for fearful products of destruction—of war and its weaponry—could be applied for peacetime applications, particularly when designing his geodesic dome, including his Expo ’67 pavilion.

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