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Has there ever been a more complicated time in the capital markets? The pressures on Chief Financial Officers have never been more acute, the job more challenging, and yet many early-stage companies still struggle to properly staff this critical function.

Now in an environment when capital is relatively scarce and expensive, expect a dramatic bifurcation between high- and low-quality companies – the latter will quickly experience a bout of significant consolidation and company closures.

What an enormously complicated time to have been in India, and to have been there alongside the recent G20 Summit made for an even more precarious environment.

Go to the end of the earth, and when you get there, turn left and go another few hundred miles and you will be at the Maldives, an independent Muslim country of ~550k people nearly 500 miles off the southern coast of India.

Yesterday just over 25k people died of starvation. The causes that contribute to that tragedy are numerous, and while the problems are often intractable, possible solutions to address this calamity are being developed in disparate settings such as the laboratory, in the capital markets, in restructuring the supply chains, and with fiscal and tax policies.