This week, 1,500 business leaders and 40 heads of state are meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for the annual World Economic Forum. They will be discussing how big business can help improve the state of the world – in their own best interests. The rhetoric from Davos is so deeply engrained …
Latest Inquiry Report – Pathways to Scale
Ethical Markets , as a participant in this important Inquiry, fully endorses these latest findings. ~Hazel Henderson, Editor We thought that you would be interested to see the UNEP Inquiry’s latest report, Pathways to Scale, which is to be released in Davos this coming week. The report is attached, and …
“Legitimacy” in the Banking Sector
A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYZING THE QUALITY OF STAKEHOLDER RELATIONS Earnings and valuation uncertainty – In a post global financial crisis world, investors are questioning long-term earnings and valuation prospects for the banking sector. Tougher regulation, particularly on capital, liquidity and structure, are exerting pressure on the traditional banking business …
Disrupting Davos
Davos is with us again. Thousands of people will scale the magic mountain and debate the world’s most gripping challenges, protected by an equal if not greater number of Swiss military and police. Disrupting Davos used to be an annual sport, with protesters playing cat and mouse with the event’s …
yond Wall Street: the encouraging growth of new financial models
By Rosalinda Sanquiche, The Guardian, 14 January 2015 The term circular economy may be new to finance, but the concept is not. The circular economy has caught on in large part because of the need to eliminate waste, where the breakdown of one system leads to the creation of another. …
2015 Report From Inclusive Prosperity Commission
Center for American Progress Releases New Report From Inclusive Prosperity Commission That Offers Bold New Prescriptions to Reinvigorate Middle Class and Reduce Growing Income Inequality January 15, 2015 New report from Inclusive Prosperity Commission, transatlantic group convened by the Center for American Progress, will present policy proposals to promote broadly …
Financial Reform Newsletter – January 09, 2015 – Again, why Silicon Valley (and all of corporate America more broadly) needs to care about what’s going on with Wall Street:
Financial Reform Newsletter January 9, 2015 Welcome to 2015! Many have asked what was in the news over the holidays that they might have missed, but would want to know. Here are some highlights: Again, why Silicon Valley (and all of corporate America more broadly) needs to care about …
New Research: Which Fossil Fuels Must Be Left Unburned (Whose, Where, How Much)
Leave fossil fuels buried to prevent climate change, study urges New research is first to identify which reserves must not be burned to keep global temperature rise under 2C, including over 90% of US and Australian coal and almost all Canadian tar sands • George Monbiot: Why leaving fossil fuels …
Federation and Coopera Launch Campaign to Reach Immigrants Through Credit Unions
“Ethical Markets supports the further use of co-operatives, credit unions and such democratic forms of financial services. Cooperative enterprises already employ more people than all the commercial, for-profit companies in the world combined ( 2013 was the UN Year of Cooperatives).” Hazel Henderson, Editor Federation and Coopera Launch Campaign to …
EU Showdown: Greece Takes on the Vampire Squid
Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a “Cyprus-Style prolonged bank holiday” if they “vote wrong.” But they have been bullied for too long and are saying “no more.” …