Today’s News: Looking Forward: Poverty In 2015

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

  Thursday, July 25, 2013 Looking Forward: Poverty In 2015 G20 Finance Ministers And Central Bank Governors Communiqué Released OECD BEPS Report Confirms The International Tax System Is Failing Rich And Poor Nations The Importance Of Whistleblowers To Financial Transparency Egypt In Crisis: A Look At Corruption Figures For The …

The CrowdCafe: A Historic Week in Crowdinvesting – July 13, 2013 (07/13/2013)

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Don’t hesitate to get in touch! [email protected] A Historic Week in Crowdinvesting – July 13, 2013 Jul 13, 2013 12:33 pm | Jonathan Sandlund |View Original Post|   As you’ve undoubtedly heard, the SEC voted 4-1 on Wednesday to lift the ban on general solicitation of private security offerings to accredited investors. The rules will …

Jay OwenBeyond GDP

    Quick Links Website Contact Us Recent related articles The Dfference Btween “Price” and “Cost”   Is”Sustainability” Poitical Hype?   Using Metrics To Improve Communities   Techniques used to deny the need for change Creative ways to lower healthcare costs for kids. Avoiding the healthcare “tow truck trap” lowers costs, …

Senate “Whale” Report Reveals JP Morgan as a Lying, Scheming Rogue Trader (Quelle Surprise!)

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

Senate “Whale” Report Reveals JP Morgan as a Lying, Scheming Rogue Trader (Quelle Surprise!) Posted: 15 Mar 2013 12:16 AM PDT There is so much grist in the just-released Senate Permanent Subcommittee report on the JP Morgan London Whale trades that the initial reports are merely high level summaries, which …

How To Make Sure Your Crowdfunding Dreams Don’t Turn Into An Investor Relations Nightmare

Ethical MarketsCrowdfunding

Editor’s note: Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss spearheaded the efforts to legalize crowdfunding and helped author the JOBS Act. They founded Crowdfund Capital Advisors and are currently co-authoring Crowdfund Investing for Dummies. The concept of crowdfunding to launch and grow your business may seem like a dream come true – reduced cost …

Carbon Markets, Trading Our Future

kristyGreen Prosperity, SRI/ESG News, Resource Efficiency

“Kudos to our British friends for this clear analysis of why Carbon Markets Failed , as I also reported in my “From Rigged Carbon Markets to Green investing”, Hazel Henderson, Editor CARBON MARKETS, TRADING OUR FUTURE New film and report show failures of carbon markets and foresee their collapse Occupy …

New issue of newsletter on EU financial reform

kristyReforming Global Finance

Editorial: The failure of financial reforms through undemocratic means Just before the G-20 Summit on 3-4 November 2011 in Cannes, the global financial system was once again at a state of crisis. Serious and escalating problems are coming from the Eurozone and European banks that own bonds from heavily indebted …

Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis

kristyReforming Global Finance

by Simon Zadek, Senior Fellow at the Global Green Growth Institute, http://www.zadek.net/blog Originally published on OpenDemocracy.net Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis: History will wrongly vindicate Standard & Poor’s in downgrading their view of US creditworthiness, because they made the right call for the wrong reason. S&P …