New Rules For Global Finance Annual General Meeting January 19, 2011 RSVP REQUIRED: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 Board Members only: 12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m. Open Meeting of Members: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Venue: Offices of K&L Gates 1601 K Street, NW (16th and K St) Washington, …
The Fed Has Spoken: No Bailout for Main Street
Ellen Brown January 11, 2011 www.webofdebt.com The Federal Reserve was set up by bankers for bankers, and it has served them well. Out of the blue, it came up with $12.3 trillion in nearly interest-free credit to bail the banks out of a credit crunch they created. That same credit …
New Rules on expert groups fail to prevent capture by business lobbies – setback for transparency
In November, the College of Commissioners quietly adopted the long-awaited revision of the ‘Horizontal Rules on Expert Groups’, the rules which govern the 1,000 plus advisory bodies set up by the Commission1. These are powerful bodies which often determine the framework of EU legislation2. Despite pressure from MEPs and civil …
Buffett, Gates and The Story of Enough
by Woody Tasch “When is enough enough?” Bernie Sanders asked during his filibuster against the Lame Duck tax bill in December. During the speech, he referred to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, two of the world’s richest three people. (If you haven’t been paying attention, they’ve been pushed down to …
Disclosure Rules for Economists
“PLEASE SIGN THIS CALL FOR A CODE OF ETHICS FOR ECONOMISTS, as we have done at Ethical Markets” Hazel Henderson, Editor By James Kwak In October, Gerald Epstein and Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth released a paper documenting potential conflicts of interests among academic economists writing about the financial crisis and financial reform. …
IMF Make Room For Younger Powers
By Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Governors of central banks and finance ministers around the world who constitute the board of governors of the IMF are voting today on the 2010 IMF Governance Reform program, approved first by the G20 Finance Ministers, then by the …
Frank Rich Nails “No Labels” – Hazel Henderson, Editor
JEEZ, can’t we all just get along? Can’t we be civilized? Can’t we reach across the aisle, find common ground and get things done? Can’t we have a new Morning in America as clubby and chipper as MSNBC’s daily gabfest, “Morning Joe”? This is actually the manifesto of the new …
Good News for Friends of the American Monetary Institute!
“We at Ethical Markets support this Bill to reform the Fed and the Way Our Money is Created” Hazel Henderson, Editor Dear Friends of the American Monetary Institute, IMPORTANT MONETARY NEWS ALERT: MAJOR, HISTORIC PROGRESS BEING MADE On Friday December 17th Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D,Ohio, 10th District) took a crucial …
Failing to Prosecute Wall Street Fraud Is Extending Our Economic Problems
More Insightful Analysis from Barry Ritholtz, editor Bill Gross, Nouriel Roubini, Laurence Kotlikoff, Steve Keen, Michel Chossudovsky and the Wall Street Journal all say that the U.S. economy is a giant Ponzi scheme. Virtually all independent economists and financial experts say that rampant fraud was largely responsible for the financial crisis. …
Robert Monks on Financial Reforms still Needed
World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai Bob just returned from WEF discussions on short term and long term responses to the world financial crisis. He focused much of his attention on issues of capital investment and in particular, short term vs. long term investing. He emailed …