Economics Debunked: Chapter Two for Sixth Graders

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  Economics Debunked: Chapter Two for Sixth Graders Posted: 22 Sep 2011 01:35 AM PDT Readers gave high marks to Andrew Dittmer’s summary of a dense but very important paper by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat of the BIS and asked if he could produce more of the same. While Andrew, …

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 …

How the Bailout Killed Local Lending — And How Some States Hope to Bring It Back

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How the Bailout Killed Local Lending — And How Some States Hope to Bring It Back Ellen Brown June 27, 2011 http://WebofDebt.com/articles “Wall Street banks have cut back on small business lending… [by] more than double the cutback in overall lending.… [Small business] options just keep disappearing.” -Elizabeth Warren, Chair …

Green Investment Bank Summit II

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Green Investment Bank Summit II Monday 13th June 2011 To view the video highlights of this event, click here. Elizabeth Rigby, Chief Political Correspondent at the FT welcomed attendees and thanked the event sponsors, Linklaters and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Lord Green, Minister of State for BIS, opened the …

Financial leaders call for investor-friendly forest-carbon market

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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 …

New Report Card Exposes Largest Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2011 3:16 PM CONTACT: Rainforest Action Network (RAN) Nell Greenberg Communications Director (415) 659-0557 New Report Card Exposes Largest Financers of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Rainforest Action Network and Sierra Club Release report card on Banks and Mountaintop Removal SAN FRANCISCO – April 5 – …

The Energy Sector with “More Potential Upside”

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By Nick Hodge | Thursday, October 28th, 2010 After a rocky start, the cleantech space is quickly becoming Wall Street’s darling. TheStreet.com — backed by Cramer himself — recently found 63% of investors now consider solar stocks a core holding. And CNBC just reported, “The green category has burst beyond …