Video: “Long Term vs. Short Term Investing”

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

SIPC Webinar in partnership with The Network for Sustainable Financial Markets (NSFM) presents “Long Term vs. Short Term Investing” with Professor Roger L. Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto and Raj Thamotheram, President and Director, NSFM.  Presentation was made at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia …

The heat is on as the New York Times closes its environment desk

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

The heat is on as the New York Times closes its environment desk The paper risks much by folding its environment desk – just at the moment when climate change has never been more pressing The New York Times shut down its environment desk earlier this month, after the hottest …

Bloomberg Doesn’t Like Financial Speculation Taxes and Is Prepared To Make Stuff Up to Make Its Case

kristyReforming Global Finance

Bloomberg Doesn’t Like Financial Speculation Taxes and Is Prepared To Make Stuff Up to Make Its Case Dean Baker Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:36 Bloomberg News Service really doesn’t like financial speculation taxes (FST). In fact it dislikes them so much that it is prepared to make things up to …

Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street?

kristyReforming Global Finance

Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street? by deanbaker1 from Dean Baker The intensity with which the country’s leading deficit hawks continue to ignore financial speculation taxes (FST) is getting ever more entertaining. While deficit hawks like Wall Street investment banker Peter Peterson, Morgan Stanley director Erskine …