‘Reforming Global Finance’
News, opinion, proposals for reforming finance at global and national levels. Tracks new laws to curb speculative finance, transaction taxes and how financiers caused the collapse of 2008-9. News on monetary-systems reform of the Federal Reserve, IMF, World Bank, BIS and central banks.
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Big Banks Back Big Coal
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/Things-To-Think-About Friday, December 2: * Big Banks Back Big Coal * The Scourge Of Soot * Wind Is A Cash Crop In Iowa * Private Sector Likes SolarstrongYesterday * Today’s Study: Building On Local Strengths (New Energy In Oregon) * Quick News, [...]
Developed nations – led by US, UK and Japan – Try to turn green climate fund into greedy corporate fund
MEDIA ADVISORYThursday December 1st, 2011Developed Nations - Led by US, UK and Japan - Try to turn green climate fund into greedy corporate fund.Durban, South Africa, Dec. 1, 2011? Today 163 civil society organisations from 39 countries released a letter exposing an attempt led by the US, the UK and Japan to turn the Green Climate [...]
Global Finance Lost In Cyberspace!
GLOBAL FINANCE LOST IN CYBERSPACE!By Hazel Henderson © 2011 For InterPress ServiceThe robot rabbit of finance – high-speed trading, cloud computing – has outrun the tortoise of government oversight and control. For years, I have documented how often science and technology leap ahead of politicians and bureaucrats. Usually, citizens [...]
Economist Steve Keen on bankrupting banks and nationalising the financial system
Economist Steve Keen on bankrupting banks and nationalising the financial systemInterview on BBC World News Hardtalk, November 2011http://youtu.be/SkesgECRXtMSteve Keen is Associate Professor of Economics & Finance at the University of Western Sydney and author of Debunking Economics. He also writes the blog Debtwatch.Keen [...]
Press Release – Chandran Nair at the APEC 2011 CEO Summit
Chandran Nair at the APEC 2011 CEO Summit: “Talking truth to power” Photo by: APEC 2011 CEO SummitGIFT Founder and CEO Chandran Nair was invited to speak to international business leaders and politicians at APEC’s 2011 CEO Summit in Honolulu on Saturday 12 November, 2011 which was attended by Presidents Hu Jintao, Barack Obama, and [...]
PBI Newsletter, 1111 – The PA Project, PBI National Conference
The Pennsylvania Project - We Have Liftoff!Mike KrausskraussPB080946 Board Member Public Banking InstituteFounder and Chair The Pennsylvania ProjectThe Pennsylvania Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit and non-partisan Pennsylvania public corporation. We are filing for IRS 501c4 status. This means contributions are not tax deductible, [...]
Haldane/Madouros: What is the Contribution of the Financial Sector?
Haldane/Madouros: What is the Contribution of the Financial Sector?Posted: 22 Nov 2011 06:20 AM PSTYves here. Andrew Haldane is the most important thinker, bar none, on the financial services industry today. This piece by Haldane and Vasileios Madouros, a fellow member of the Financial Stability team at the Bank of England. contains a key [...]
Super Committee Deadlock: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
Super Committee Deadlock: Heads They Win, Tails We Lose Ellen Brown http://WebofDebt.com/articles November 17, 2011 It is no great surprise that with only days to go, the congressional “super committee,” given the herculean task of carving an additional $1.2 trillion out of the federal budget, has failed to reach agreement. Why should six [...]
10 Reasons to Care About Economic Inequality
My name’s Faiza and I’m an Economic Inequality researcher at nef. I’m writing this month’s e-letter because I wanted to share two reports we’ve published about the growing inequality problem we face.10 Reasons to Care About Economic Inequality Why the Rich Are Getting RicherMy passion for inequality is born from personal [...]
ITUC Supports “Occupy” Movement
Brussels, 16 November 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The international trade union movement has added its support to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, for the day of action planned on 17 November in the US and several other countries.In a video message of solidarity and support, ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow honoured those involved for their [...]
