Former UK Prime Minister and current Member of Parliament Gordon Brown will address global financial leaders during the UNEP FI Global Roundtable meeting on financial sustainability to take place in Washington D.C. this October. Mr Brown, widely respected as the global leader who rallied the world’s financial policy-makers to respond …
Japan Shows How to Defuse Debt Time-bomb
Japan Shows How to Defuse Debt Time-bomb Ellen Brown www.webofdebt.com/articles May 27, 2011 [T]hreatening to default should not be a partisan issue. In view of all the hazards it entails, one wonders why any responsible person would even flirt with the idea. — Alan S. Blinder, Princeton professor of economics, …
G8 Summit Must Deliver on Jobs – ITUC OnLine
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC OnLine 106/250511 G8 Summit Must Deliver on Jobs Brussels, 25 May 2011 (ITUC OnLine): This week’s G8 Summit of World Leaders must deliver leadership to end the global jobs crisis, according to the world’s trade unions. Over 30 million people who lost their jobs …
Heading for the right choice?
Heading for the right choice? A professional approach to selecting the IMF boss The IMF has committed itself to ending European dominance of selection of its managing director, and introducing an open, merit-based and transparent process. This paper sets out the three key elements to ensuring a successful process next …
The Basics Behind the Debt Limit Debate: More Partisan than Practical?
by Marian Wang ProPublica, May 17, 2011, 10:08 a.m. 6 Comments Republish E-mail Your e-mail Your name Friends’ e-mail(s) max 10, separated by commas Personal message Print Justin Sullivan/Getty Images file photo As you may have heard, the federal government hit its $14.3 trillion debt limit yesterday—something the Treasury has …
Rethinking Finance: Good Servant, Bad Master
Hazel Henderson is teaching again at Schumacher College for their course “Rethinking Finance: Good Servant, Bad Master?” with Ethical Markets Advisory Board members Tessa Tennant and Ann Pettifor, as well as Nathalie Buschor, Mark Burton and Julie Richardson. Reforming finance is still urgent globally. For example, in the US, the …
State Bank Movement Picks Up Steam
Feds To States: “Drop Dead.” by Ellen Brown, www.webofdebt.com/articles, May 16, 2011 “Ford to New York: Drop Dead,” said a famous headline in 1975. President Ford had declared flatly that he would veto any bill calling for “a federal bail-out of New York City.” What he proposed instead was legislation that would …
Read the Bills! (2 of 2) – PBI Newsletter, 0511, Special Edition
Dear Friends of PBI, This is our work. We educate law and policy makers so they can write and pass legislation that creates affordable credit for the very people whom they represent. Read the bills in this Special Edition of the Public Banking Newsletter and see the bills for yourself. …
Inflation Fears: Real or Hysteria?
Inflation Fears: Real or Hysteria? Ellen Brown www.webofdebt.com/articles May 9, 2011 Debate continues to rage between the inflationists who say the money supply is increasing, dangerously devaluing the currency, and the deflationists who say we need more money in the economy to stimulate productivity. The debate is not just an …
Financial leaders call for investor-friendly forest-carbon market
PRESS RELEASE Financial leaders call for investor-friendly forest-carbon market Call marks turning point ahead of Durban climate change talks London, 6 May 2011 – Leading financial institutions upped the ante on their future role in mitigating climate change as they called for more effective forest-carbon regulations during a United Nations …