‘Reforming Global Finance’

Transforming Economics Into True Wealth

November 2012  The statement on TRANSFORMING ECONOMIES INTO TRUE WEALTH is an invitation to fully engage in the planetary whole-system shift now under way.  Many SRI investment professionals recognize our human responsibility for the many breakdowns in our societies and enfolding ecosystems resulting from our limited consciousness: climate [...]

STATEMENT ON TRANSFORMING FINANCE BASED ON ETHICS AND LIFE’S PRINCIPLES

June 27, 2012  © 2012 The STATEMENT ON TRANSFORMING FINANCE BASED ON ETHICS AND LIFE’S PRINCIPLES begins with the biological truth that the human species is interdependent with all other life forms on Planet Earth.  A joint collobration with Biomimicry 3.8, the statement shows how human societies, cultures, values and belief systems are [...]

IDB: Latin American public banks show strong potential to help address climate change and foster productive development

June 18, 2013 - Webstories Latin American public banks show strong potential to help address climate change and foster productive development Public development banks represent 10 percent of lending in Latin America and the Caribbean Public Development Banks (PDBs) in Latin America and the Caribbean provide more than $700 billion in loans [...]

Positive Money: How about something truly radical?

    "How about something truly radical – the complete dismemberment of the banking system as we know it and its replacement with what is known as 100pc reserve banking?" - this was a subheading of a recent article in the Telegraph. Just two years ago, there was almost no media coverage of the creation of [...]

Elizabeth Warren’s QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or Economic Breakthrough?

  Elizabeth Warren’s QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or Economic Breakthrough? Posted on June 14, 2013 by Ellen Brown On July 1, interest rates will double for millions of students – from 3.4% to 6.8% – unless Congress acts; and the legislative fixes on the table are largely just compromises. Only one proposal promises [...]

  Friday, June 14, 2013 G8 Leaders Tackle Tax Havens And Global Inequality G8 Preview: Momentum Toward Public Registries For Beneficial Owners It’s Time Corporations Flew Old Glory Instead Of The Jolly [...]

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: GFI Calls on Obama, G8 to Require Public Registries of Corporate Owners, Curtail Illicit Flows

  Friday, June 14, 2013 G8 Leaders Tackle Tax Havens And Global Inequality G8 Preview: Momentum Toward Public Registries For Beneficial Owners It’s Time Corporations Flew Old Glory Instead Of The Jolly [...]

CSRwire News Alert – Social Entrepreneurship: Reach vs. Scale … And, Don’t Let Them Tax Wall Street?

Daily News Alert   How To Make A Million Dollars An Hour, Step 11: Don't Let Them Tax Wall Street! "Who would have thought that kindly, caring nurses could stand in the [...]

8th Annual Green Economics Conference at Worcester College, Oxford University 17 – 20 July 2013

 The Green Economics Institute   Conference Announcement Call for Papers and Speakers Green Economics Conference to be held at Oxford University 17th - 20th July 2013 Balancing the Global Economy!         Conference Info - download link Booking Form - download link We are delighted to announce The [...]

naked capitalism : Sasha Breger: How Commodities Hoarding Distorts Food Prices

naked capitalism Links 6/5/13  Sasha Breger: How Commodities Hoarding Distorts Food Prices Bill Black: Great Moments in Nobel Prize History – 2007 Winner Pumps for Plutocracy, Billionaire CEOs     Sasha Breger: How Commodities Hoarding Distorts Food [...]