‘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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UN Conference on the World financial and Economic Crisis Postponed to 24-26 June
Posted May 27, 2009 In an effort to help keep interested stakeholders informed on the latest developments and events leading to the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development taking place in New York from 24-26 June 2009, NGLS has launched a dedicated weekly ’bulletin’ up to the Conference. Read [...]
Canada COMER
What a bang-on, blowout issue we have for YOU this month in COMER!!! Exposing the CANSEC World 'Fair' - Canada's largest military arms bazaar, May 27-28, Ottawa LOTS of details, info & resources in this article contributed by Richard Sanders - Thanks Richard! PLUS: Can You Believe It?? Even the CD Howe 'Institute'!! Did they make a [...]
Economic Meltdown: A Center for Public Integrity Investigation
Posted May 22, 2009 Since the release of the Center for Public Integrity’s major investigation Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?, its impact has been felt from coast to coast and around the world: Newspapers from the Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times, and from cities north, south, and in between including the Chicago Tribune, USA [...]
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY CURRENCY RESEARCH
.!. Children of Men video Billy Jack on dvd Graveyard Shift buy A Four Letter Word Terms of Endearment full Quid Pro Quo trailer Johnny Mnemonic SOCIAL ECONOMY AND CENTRAL BANKS: LEGAL AND REGULATORY ISSUES ON SOCIAL CURRENCIES (SOCIAL MONEY) AS A PUBLIC POLICY INSTRUMENT CONSISTENT WITH MONETARY POLICY. In Brazil, the National [...]
The Weimar Hyperinflation? Could it Happen Again?
Some worried commentators are predicting a massive hyperinflation of the sort suffered by Weimar Germany in 1923, when a wheelbarrow full of paper money could barely buy a loaf of bread. An April 29 editorial in the San Francisco Examiner warned: “With an unprecedented deficit that’s approaching $2 trillion, budget proposal is a surefire [...]
Global Marshall Plan News 5/2009
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RE-DEFINING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND RE-SHAPING GLOBALIZATION TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY
Posted May 13, 2009 By Hazel Henderson © 2009 Author, President, Ethical Markets Media LLC (USA and Brazil) International Conference on Concerted Strategies to meet the Environmental and Economic Challenges of the 21st Century Club of Rome Vienna, Austria,16 and 17 April, 2009 The London G-20 Summit, April 2nd, marked a useful new [...]
NGLS Bulletin 3: UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development
Posted May 13, 2009 In an effort to help keep interested stakeholders informed on the latest developments and events leading to the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development taking place in New York from 1-3 June 2009, NGLS has launched a dedicated weekly ’bulletin’ up to the Conference. Click here [...]
Who's Behind the Financial Meltdown?
The Center for Public Integrity WASHINGTON, D.C., May 6, 2009 — The top subprime lenders whose loans are largely blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by giant banks now collecting billions of dollars in bailout money, according to Who’s Behind the Financial Meltdown?, a new investigation by the Center for [...]
The Other Stress Test (For Bankers)
The Baseline Scenario Posted: 08 May 2009 03:23 AM PDT There is nothing you can teach Wall Street titans regarding the timing of news flow. Stephen Friedman, the former head of Goldman Sachs, resigned last night as chair of the New York Fed’s board, after committing essentially a rookie error. (more...)
More invaluable advice from Robert A. G. Monks, analyzing the new breed of dysfunctional “drone corporations.” He calls out the most influential trustees of pension funds, endowments, and foundations by name to take responsibility. A must read by asset managers and trustees worldwide.