

Like a Deck of Cards the Empire of Exclusivity is Ending
Traditional banking structures were formed to serve and are therefore reflective of the first, second, and even third industrial revolutions, but not the fourth. Banking, as we have known it in our lifetimes, is opaque, secretive, clumsy, and exclusive rather than...
Decentralization and Tokenization Lead to Democratization | The Opportunity for an Investor Mindset at the “Other End” of the Financial Spectrum Global financial decentralization via blockchain, coupled with digital currencies and tokenized real world assets, offers a new world of financial egalitarianism.
Can a hotel construction in North America be sustainably funded by a worker from a remote Nicaraguan village, a taxi driver from New York, a young family from South Africa, and millions of others like them? Yes. Can those people become owners of the physical asset and...

Human Flourishing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution Why the Global South is more optimistic about the emergence of Artificial Intelligence than the established Global North.
As the Veritas Chronicles team has been working with members of the Nexten Summit community (nextensummit.com) — the first episode of which is in Dakar, Senegal, December 3-5, 2025 — we have noticed a distinctive optimism that permeates every conversation we...

Route 66 as a Symbol of the Elusive But Compelling American Dream: Hope. Toil. Sacrifice. Failure. Triumph. Enduring Faith. No one can definitively describe the American Dream. It is a little bit different for everyone. But whatever it is, it has never been easy. Often elusive, it has always demanded work and sacrifice.
Footsteps to the waters of the Pacific Ocean. The western end of Route 66 runs to the shores of the Pacific Ocean at Santa Monica, California. From the shores of Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes Region to the Pacific Ocean, the circa 2,500 mile highway known as Route...
