Posts Tagged ‘banks’
‘Inclusive Innovation’ Offers Opportunity for the Financial Sector to Grow and Re-engage with Society: New Report
“Backing into the Future of Finance Looking Through the Rearview Mirror !” This report is a cautious, status quo view, somewhat behind the curve . Hazel Henderson, Editor” Embargo: 09:00 EST, December 16 2011 ‘Inclusive Innovation’ Offers Opportunity for the Financial Sector to Grow and Re-engage with Society: New Report San [...]
To Save Post Offices, Turn Them Into Public Banks
I didn't get any mail today, or the day before. I'm not the only one lacking in pen pals: From 2006 to 2010, mail volume declined by 20 percent, and it's going to keep dropping. We're doing a lot more of our correspondence online these days, and that decline in business is putting the U.S. Postal Service - a government enterprise that would rank [...]
FOCUS: The Capitalist Network That Runs the World
An important analysis by Systems Design Group at ETH Research, Zurich,thanks to our Advisory Board member Rosa Alegria in Sao Paulo,Brazil , Hazel Henderson, Editor s protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 [...]
Taming the Casino
Taming the Casino Bloomberg View has joined its Wall Street customers in coming out against the Financial Transactions Tax proposed by Germany and France, and recommended by the European Union, declaring it politically unfeasible while undermining economic growth. FTT advocates have positioned it as a “tax on Wall Street,” a response to [...]
Regulators Loosen Limits on Risk in Latest Drafts of Key Financial Reform Rules
by Marian Wang | @mariancw The regulatory agencies in charge of finalizing some of the most controversial rules mandated by the financial reform law are leaning toward making them looser and more favorable to banks and other traders. Read more...
How-to Guide for Fixing America’s Banks
Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT This week’s Washington Post column is (finally) out, and its a look at the Buffett’s bailout of Bank of America, and what it means for the overall financial systems. “Many investors assumed the Wall Street bailouts of Bank of America and the other big banks more or less healed the sector. [...]
Orwell Watch: Banks Put a Happy Face on Demolishing Foreclosed Homes
Our thanks to Naked Capitalism for uncovering this scam! - Hazel Henderson In the through the looking glass world of reality according to banks, tearing down foreclosed houses is a good thing. Really. The spin that Bank of America is using to justify the notion of bulldozing buildings is that the houses in question are worth bupkis, say [...]
You Want to Fix the U.S. Economy? Here’s a Start
Charles Hugh Smith publishes Foreclosure Crisis Weekly, dedicated to documenting the often-amazing foreclosure crisis. A simple 8-point plan would restore both the banking and the real estate sectors, and end the political dominance of the parasitic “too big to fail” banks. Read more...
Sheila Bair’s resignation from FDIC
A publication from The New York Times Sheila Bair’s Bank Shot By JOE NOCERA Published: July 9, 2011 It was midmorning on a crisp June day, and Bair, the 57-year-old outgoing chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — the federal agency that insures bank deposits and winds down failing banks — was sitting on a couch, [...]
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Robert Rubinstein
An interview from Emerging Markets ESG Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Robert Rubinstein, Founder and CEO, TBLI Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – May 6, 2011 By Geoffrey on May 6, 2011 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a [...]
