Blog Entries by Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort

Become Part of The Monfort Plan (video)

Posted October 13, 2009 | 07:46 PM (EST)


Become part of The Monfort Plan. You can now invest in the action plan to redefine capitalism and eradicate extreme poverty. Buy your participation today. Request the Investment Proposal at prospectus@monfort.org

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Zapatero Discovers America

Posted October 4, 2009 | 05:19 PM (EST)


Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain, will visit the White House this coming October 13, 2009. In his first visit to the White House Mr Zapatero will show his fellow Spaniards that he is the closest US ally on this side of the Atlantic.

Not long ago in...

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Welcome Mr Monfort (video)

Posted September 27, 2009 | 11:29 PM (EST)


Watch Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort brief about The New Architecture of Capitalism on Spanish Public Television. The New Architecture of Capitalism is presented in Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort's forthcoming book The Monfort Plan (Wiley Finance, April 2010).

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A Modest Proposal

Posted September 1, 2009 | 06:36 PM (EST)


The Monfort Plan is a modest proposal that describes the new architecture of capitalism. Jonathan Swift wrote his Modest Proposal in 1729, in which he identified three classes of readers: the superficial, the ignorant and the learned. According to Swift "the superficial reader will be strangely provoked to laughter", whereas...

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Dreamers

Posted August 16, 2009 | 07:29 AM (EST)


You decide to seek explanations to the great evils of our time. You are called unorthodox. You say why not when and where, others say why. You dare, therefore you exist. You are the dreamers of today.

You do not understand why the current political elite perpetuate a foreign policy...

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The Monboard

Posted August 13, 2009 | 07:11 AM (EST)


The Monboard is a magnetic board that features the components of the Monfort Team, the One Hundred Expert Dreamers that will join the Expert Dreamer in the Journey of our Lifetime, a journey that will lead us to Decemland, the land of ten percent.

The Monboard is a magic board....

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I Dreamt

Posted August 9, 2009 | 07:57 PM (EST)


I dreamt that another world was possible and I thought what would happen if I did not pursue my dream. I thought another world was possible and I dreamt that I woke up and never gave up. I dreamt of a better world and woke up and decided to start...

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Pirates

Posted August 8, 2009 | 05:41 PM (EST)


You live in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands and Switzerland. You work for private banks and hedge funds. You think short-term investing is not speculation. You graduate from the top business schools and law schools and join the best law firms. You are the Pirates of Heartless Capitalism.

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The Expert Dreamers

Posted August 3, 2009 | 06:07 AM (EST)


We have never had a plan of action that put together the best ideas of the best minds of our time. This is one of the purposes of The Monfort Plan, a plan that constructs a credible success story by incorporating the work of some of the most talented and...

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Tardis

Posted July 30, 2009 | 09:46 AM (EST)


Tardis is a machine that allows its riders to travel in time and space. I discovered Tardis. It is a machine that will allow the human kind to travel to the future and make progress in 40 years that many thought would only happen in two centuries.

There is a...

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Excremental Change

3 Comments | Posted July 28, 2009 | 12:27 PM (EST)


Many academics comment that the right approach to development is incremental change or incremental improvement. What kind of incremental change are we talking about? Why didn't the United States apply incremental change in Europe in the aftermath of World War II?

I am afraid that incremental change works for...

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Diamonds Are Not Forever

Posted July 25, 2009 | 04:39 PM (EST)


I spent the third week of my Southern African tour in Namibia and Botswana, two of the middle-income countries of this generally speaking low-income area of the world. Namibia and Botswana are sparsely populated vast territories of about the size of Texas and a population of under two million.

Namibia...

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Monfort in Guebuza's Mozambique

Posted July 8, 2009 | 03:28 PM (EST)


I landed in Maputo today, where I will spend the week meeting with representative leaders of the government and non-profit institutions. Mozambique is one of the six countries where the new architecture of capitalism could emerge. I had dinner with Mohamed Harun, Advisor to the Minister of Tourism Fernando Sambana....

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The Four Pillars (Video Blog)

Posted July 6, 2009 | 03:45 PM (EST)


Watch Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort's present the four pillars of capitalism's new architecture.

Find more about Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort at http://Monfort.ORG

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A meeting at Valois

Posted July 2, 2009 | 01:04 PM (EST)


This article describes how I met Bill and came up with the idea of writing the book. If you remember my favorite Seinfeld episode you will realize right away this section has the same pattern. It starts from the end and finishes from the beginning.

On Friday 3 October 2008...

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A World of Two Halves and a Single Bridge

Posted July 1, 2009 | 07:03 PM (EST)


We are used to living in a world of two halves joined by a single bridge. Social scientists have elaborated the theory needed to build the single, old-fashioned bridge. They continue to improve their theories based on history, wondering if they would work in the construction of future bridges. There...

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The World's Neverland

1 Comments | Posted June 30, 2009 | 03:20 PM (EST)


Michael Jackson opened his Neverland ranch in 1988. The ranch had an area of approximately 11 km2. Mr Jackson named his estate after Peter Pan's Neverland, the fictional world where residents never grew up. For decades we dreamt of Neverland. Michael Jackson built his own land of dreams away from...

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The History of Tomorrow

Posted June 27, 2009 | 03:00 PM (EST)


The History of Tomorrow starts on the decem date. The decem date takes place on the triple-ten, a Sunday, the referenda date that will populate the developed world with the ballots of those that said why not instead of why. The History of Tomorrow triggers the Glorious Forty, able to...

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Decempliant, Monfortable and Povertimmune

1 Comments | Posted June 25, 2009 | 06:01 PM (EST)


There are three words that define the new architecture of capitalism: monfortable, decempliant and povertimmune. Developed countries can become decempliant. Developing countries can become monfortable. Decempliant developed countries and monfortable developing countries can then have a povertimmune relationship that becomes the antidote against poverty in a new capitalist paradigm.

What...

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The Chief Dreamer

Posted June 24, 2009 | 01:27 AM (EST)


In today's environment a paradigm shift is feasible if we raise the awareness of the citizens of Europe and North America, whose leaders have driven capitalism to a point of no-return; where the myriad of bail-outs and stimuli have only postponed a well-needed and deserved reform of other non-financial components...

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