Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone! By Sheila Bair Published: April 13 Are you concerned about growing income inequality in America? Are you resentful of all that wealth concentrated in the 1 percent? I’ve got the perfect solution, a modest proposal that involves just a small adjustment …
FUTURE MONEY: Breakdown or Breakthrough?
James Robertson Newsletter No. 35 – April 2012 The full Newsletter can also be viewed at www.jamesrobertson.com/newsletter.htm. 1. My new book FUTURE MONEY: Breakdown or Breakthrough? – www.greenbooks.co.uk/en/book/414/future-money.html – will be published on 19 April by Green Books. Subscribers to this newsletter will be given access to a free pdf …
Leaders Serve Up New Packaging – Corporations & Stakeholders, Apr. 2012
Leaders Serve Up New Packaging Image: Biodegradable Packaging by Juliette Terzieff, Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Initiative, Labor & Transparency Programs McDonald’s removed polystyrene-based clamshell food containers from its restaurants 20 years ago because of the impacts the petroleum-based containers had on the environment?”packaging that persists in the environment for hundreds …
BRICS Summit 2012 — Dropping US dollar, IMF & aid to Syria
BRICS Summit 2012 — Dropping US dollar, IMF & aid to Syria By Anne Sewell Mar 29, 2012 in World New Delhi – At a meeting of the world’s 5 leading emerging economies, many issues were raised including stepping away from the Dollar as a reserve currency and reform of …
Taxing Wall Street Speculation
Ethical Markets also supports the financial transactions tax since 1995! Nice it’s now gaining traction globally! Hazel Henderson, Editor Taxing Wall Street Speculation There’s Another, Better Way To Go After the 1 Percent Than the Obama Administration’s Proposed “Buffett Rule.” by Wallace Turbeville As the White House mounts a major …
Philadelphia Freedom: Birthplace of the Constitution Takes Center Stage
Philadelphia Freedom: Birthplace of the Constitution Takes Center Stage ‘Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom From the day that I was born I’ve waved the flag Philadelphia freedom took me knee-high to a man Yeah, gave me peace of mind my daddy never had. — Elton John, Bernie …
Stephen Zarlenga speaking in Boston Area April 15th
Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute, Are you in the Boston area on April 15th? Meet Stephen Zarlenga and better understand why our money system requires reform and how to do it! Let your friends know they can attend. AMI Director Stephen Zarlenga will give a free monetary seminar, …
New World Bank president: what’s on the agenda?
Bretton Woods Update No. 80 March/April 2012 New World Bank president: what’s on the agenda? An unprecedented competition for the presidency of the World Bank, with two highly experienced developing country candidates nominated in addition to the US candidate, has raised demands for reform of the Bank’s approach to middle-income …
BRICS Summit 2012 — Dropping US dollar, IMF & aid to Syria
These two stories from Bloomberg and Digital Journal, sent to us, with our thanks, by our colleague, Gil Raiford BRICS Summit 2012 — Dropping US dollar, IMF & aid to Syria By Anne Sewell Mar 29, 2012 in World New Delhi – At a meeting of the world’s 5 leading …
Oh Canada! Imposing Austerity on the World’s Most Resource-rich Country
Oh Canada! Imposing Austerity on the World’s Most Resource-rich Country Ellen Brown Webofdebt.com/articles April 1, 2012 Even the world’s most resource-rich country has now been caught in the debt trap. Its once-proud government programs are being subjected to radical budget cuts—cuts that could have been avoided if the government had …