My entire life I've pursued one question: What do people consider valuable and how do they create valuable things? I've done this in different jobs. First, beginning in the late 1970s, I helped create and run a non-profit CDC in a partially-abandoned Dorchester neighborhood that had dramatically lost value. Then, I served as Deputy Commissioner of Banks for Massachusetts figuring out, in part, how banks loaned against value. As a financial and economic journalist, I monitored changes in value. I've taught people how to detect "illusions" of value. I have also studied the economic and social creation of real value.
