A Safe and a Shotgun or Publicly-owned Banks? The Battle of Cyprus

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

A Safe and a Shotgun or Publicly-owned Banks? The Battle of Cyprus Posted on March 21, 2013 by Ellen Brown If these worries become really serious, . . . [s]mall savers will take their money out of banks and resort to household safes and a shotgun. – Martin Hutchinson on the attempted EU raid on …

Money Out. People In.

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News

We at Ethical Markets support this campaign to reform US politics. – Hazel Henderson, Editor Our best wishes go out to those in areas impacted by Hurricane Sandy. While the East Coast navigates this devastating time, let’s work together to get out the vote. Money out. People in. That’s the …

Adair Turner: Reforming Global Finance — Announcing Ford Foundation Editorial Project

Ethical MarketsReforming Global Finance

We at Ethical Markets Media applaud The Globalist  and offer our help in this new initiative.   Hazel Henderson, Editor The Globalist’s “Reforming Global Finance” Series We are pleased to announce the launch of our Reforming Global Finance series. This series will present essays and analyses by experts in the …

Overturning ‘Citizens United’ Isn’t Enough! Lawrence Lessig on the Campaign Finance Racket (Video)

kristySRI/ESG News

Overturning the Citizens United ruling “terrifies” Lessig because “it imagines somehow that on January 20, 2010 ? the day before Citizens United was decided ? our democracy was fine and Citizens United broke it. But of course, the democracy was already broken.” Lessig elaborated on how to get back on …

A New Report on U.S. Jobs Program that Create Livelihoods

kristyCommunity Development Solutions

A New Report on U.S. Jobs Program that Create Livelihoods A Main Street Fix for Wall Street’s Failures is a report of the New Economy Working Group produced in collaboration with the New Economy Network; it is an outcome of a series of conversations focused on building a policy agenda …

4 Stars: Truthout reprints YES magazine piece on Time Banking/New Money for a New World &Dare to Care

kristyWealth of Networks

Some folks have services to provide, but no job. Some have a need for services, but no money. Impossible situation, right? Wrong. We, too, can “print our own money,” in the form of Time Dollars — the simplest, easiest-to-establish, and most hassle-free form of parallel currency, which can be implemented …

Crowdsourcing democracy through social media

Ethical MarketsWealth of Networks

As reported on physorg.com Liberia, a country that only recently emerged from a brutal civil war, is having presidential elections. A Georgia Tech professor is experimenting with a novel idea: Crowdsourcing reports on how elections are running and making available timely reports to prevent any dangerous situations from occurring. Read more…