Lawton Finance Labs
The Circular Century Has Begun.
Powered by Circlenomics — a new global economic operating system.
Lawton Finance Labs (LFL) is a financial research and development platform focused on building the financial architecture for the circular global economy. Founded by Bill Lawton, it develops solutions to better align state and market to improve environmental, social and economic outcomes at systemic scale.
The world already possesses the capital, technology, and productive capacity required to build a sustainable global economy. What has been missing is a new economic operating system to replace the current linear model designed for prior centuries.
Lawton Finance Labs (with The Lima Institute of Brazil) has developed Circlenomics (1)—a circular global economic operating system designed to meet this need. It combines the elegance, wisdom, and strength of nature with financial systems to create a self-funding regenerative economic framework.
Circlenomics is built on the Lawton Bond Models used by China's central bank and other institutions as inputs into decision-making for more than 30 years, beginning in 1993. This was a period of rapid economic expansion that lifted over 800 million people out of poverty. While only one of many contributing factors, the models and thinking behind them formed an important part of that broader pro-growth development framework.
Circlenomics extends these original models to incorporate circularity, sustainability, aligned incentives across markets, public policy, logistics systems, and technology platforms.
Based on its experience in China, LFL expects Circlenomics to generate sufficient incremental global GDP to offset much of the cost of the green transition.
One of the missing ingredients for Circlenomics global implementation has been lack of cooperation between China and the US. LFL believes that the May 2026 summit between President Xi and President Trump was a watershed event marking greater US–China cooperation and the beginning of the Circular Century.
An explosion of new green investment is about to take place that few see yet. Leading by example to demonstrate the power of Circlenomics, Lawton Finance Labs has initiated a new Financial Accelerator (2) experiment in BoXX (3) with the goal to help recycle 100% of the world's boxes and paper, saving over 2.5 billion trees per year. Just the beginning of a better chapter in human history.
Lawton Finance Labs hereby officially launches Circlenomics and the Circular Century.
The Circular Century has begun.
Circlenomics is the economic operating system of the Circular Century.
Lawton on Markets provides ongoing analysis and insight into this transformation.
On Lawton:
Senior China Financial Advisor
The FT of London said, "In 1993 Lawton went to China as one of the first investment managers from the West to assist the People's Bank of China in devising a strategy for its reserves, and he has been advising Chinese institutions ever since."
Performance
"Bill Lawton is ...one of the world’s smartest investors- gauged by his investment performance. His macro fund was up over 16% in 2008. Even more impressive is the fund he conceived and launched in China which is up over 1,000% since its launch less than four years ago."
Endorsed
Lawton's investment program "endorsed for nationwide implementation" by the Office of the President of the Philippines.
Trusted
Trusted by Teraju, Office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, which "fully supports initiatives of Seagate Global Capital," that Lawton designed.