“We must begin with the basic facts and figures that describe our access to outer space. It is true that 2024 has ushered in a new era, and January 2024 was the busiest start to a year since 1957 in terms of orbital launches. While we continue to break new ground and build new capabilities, like the SpaceX Starship, we are still at the early […]
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“A new investment program that raises the bar and adds more ambitious targets on the ten-point plan [National Space Strategy] can be achieved through a space-adjusted financial value framework, mathematics, and monetary tools. If we were to transform our financial value framework and mathematics… we will be able to allocate the billions needed to fund our most ambitious outer space […]
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“Adopting a space-adjusted financial value framework and mathematics can transform the monetary policy instruments we use for money creation. They can help us expand our toolkit and introduce the monetisation of space (PCN) alongside the monetisation of risk and time (debt) into our architecture. This, in turn, can help us transform the US debt ceiling into a wealth floor, and […]
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“Sandwiched between stars, to explore the universe our technological imagination must be matched with a commensurately bold and empowering financial imagination. We transcend our limiting interpretations in technology every day, and it is high time we find the new concepts through which we can address the debilitating assumptions of our financial and monetary economics.” Financing the Race to Space, 2024 […]
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“Wherever one may be on planet Earth, or on the International Space Station (ISS), or Tiangong Space Station (TSS), at this very moment, and always, one is in between stars – above one’s head and underneath one’s feet. This is the true and authentic where of the human experience – a tangible given, more real than the entire taxonomy of […]
Read moreThe carbon in our air, the plastic in our oceans, the sewage in our rivers and beaches, the waste in and on our lands, the debris in orbit… they are all, individually and collectively, the statistically significant evidence of the necessity to reinvent human productivity. This task, a monumental and evolutionary challenge, is now irreversibly on the global agenda. Before […]
Read moreIf we are to meet the climate challenges ahead, change course, and give future generations a chance to do better, we must rethink—and re-invent—the very principles, equations, methodologies, data points, and technologies by making a radical and fundamental adjustment to our financial value framework. In short, we must change the way businesses and investments, and their impact, are valued and […]
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