Break Bank of America up: Keep only the Retail operation!

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Three Questions For The Financial Stability Oversight Council Posted: 03 Sep 2011 04:16 AM PDT By Simon Johnson The Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010 created a Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), with the task of taking an integrated view of risks in and around the U.S. financial sector. The …

The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food

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If we don’t reverse the current trend in food prices, we’ve got until August 2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, say complexity theorists kfc 08/15/2011 What causes riots? That’s not a question you would expect to have a simple answer. But today, Marco Lagi and buddies at the New …

Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis

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Articles by Simon Zadek, Senior Fellow, Global Green Growth Institute; Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis: History will wrongly vindicate Standard & Poor’s in downgrading their view of US creditworthiness, because they made the right call for the wrong reason. …

Press Release: Oil transparency must underpin negotiations over Libya’s future

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—from BankTrack member Global Witness— London, 31st August, Transparency of Libya’s oil wealth must be a key priority of Thursday’s negotiations over the country’s future, said Global Witness today. The meeting, which is to be co-chaired by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and France’s President, Nicholas Sarkozy, could mark a …

Subject ‘Hot Money’ to Controls

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By Raul de Sagastizabal*     IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint   MONTEVIDEO (IDN) – Hot money is the “purely speculative money,” which enters into an economy or an economic sector in order to earn a short-term and/or huge profit and leave quickly, as long as it finds more profit elsewhere. Hot money …

Global crisis rooted in systemic failure of the financial and political elite

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CEO George Friedman says the current economic problems in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are the result of systemic failure in two major communities: the financial and political elite. Colin: Another of those rollercoaster weeks on the stock market may have terrified the wits out of investors but it belies …

The Economic Crisis and the U.S. Policy Response: Just Right, Too Little or Too Much?

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The Economic Crisis and the U.S. Policy Response: Just Right, Too Little or Too Much? Meeting Summary Added to Website On June 2nd the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Heinrich Boell Foundation and New Rules for Global Finance sponsored an event titled “The Economic Crisis and the U.S. …

Global Marshall Plan News 7/2011

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Global Marshall Plan Initiative www.globalmarshallplan.org Newsletter 7/2011 News from the Global Marshall Plan Network An Inevitable Crisis Looming Local Groups Arranged two Inspiring University Days in Southern Germany A Marshall Plan for the Arab World Financial Transactions Tax seems to be realized soon! – But, who receives the revenues? UN …

Statement by the Commonwealth Trade Unions Group to the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of the Government Meeting – ITUC OnLine

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC OnLine 138/150711 Statement by the Commonwealth Trade Unions Group to the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of the Government Meeting (CHOGM) (Perth, Australia, 28-30 October 2011) Brussels, 15 July 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The statement published today by the the Commonwealth Trade Unions Group sets out a …