Institute for the Future (IFTF)'s video: Financialization of Life: How we turned into a nation of investors and CFOs

Have you been anxiously checking your retirement accounts since the recent banking meltdown? Have you been calling your bank or financial advisor only to hear that their voice mailboxes are full? If so, you are not alone. How and when did we all turn into individual CFOs and investors anyway? IFTF Executive Director Marina Gorbis, and University of Michigan Professor of Management and Organizations Jerry Davis discuss how we all become a political project that turned us all into investors and CFO’s, transforming our language and cultural assumptions, forcing us to see everything through the lens of investments and returns. For more about IFTF’s Equitable Enterprise Initiative, subscribe and follow our Future Now podcast series at https://www.iftf.org/podcast/