Posts Tagged ‘financial meltdown’
CELAC: Speaking for Latin America and the Caribbean
"Other News" is a personal initiative seeking to provide information that should be in the media but is not, because of commercial criteria. It welcomes contributions from everybody. Work areas include information on global issues, north-south relations, governance of globalization. Roberto Savio //Reproduction in whole or in part without [...]
Ban Calls On G-20 Summit to Show Boldness to Solve Global Economic Crisis
New York, Oct 25 2011 7:05PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling on the world’s biggest economies to heed the voices of global public protest at their G-20 summit next week and show the bold leadership needed to resolve the global economic crisis and achieve sustainable development. “The gathering force of public protest is the [...]
Families and Workers lose as Governments cut key
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC OnLine 128/230611 Families and Workers lose as Governments cut key services to pay off the banks Brussels, 23 June 2011 (ITUC OnLine): Workers and their families across the globe are at the end of savage cuts to the public sector, as Governments across the globe again use the assets [...]
Rethinking Finance: Good Servant, Bad Master
Hazel Henderson is teaching again at Schumacher College for their course "Rethinking Finance: Good Servant, Bad Master?" with Ethical Markets Advisory Board members Tessa Tennant and Ann Pettifor, as well as Nathalie Buschor, Mark Burton and Julie Richardson. Reforming finance is still urgent globally. For example, in the US, the Dodd-Frank law [...]
Can Accountants Save the World?
Reprinted with permission from ICAEW Global financial meltdown is bad enough but what about catastrophic climate change? Floods in China and Pakistan, forest fires in Russia, drought in Australia – the ‘climate crunch’ could be more devastating than the credit crunch. Accountants were at the heart of the operation to rescue the global [...]
ECONNED by Yves Smith, Palgrave Macmillan 2010
Review by Hazel Henderson ECONNED is the most deeply researched and empirically validated account of the financial meltdown of 2008-2009 and how its unaddressed causes predict similar crises to come. As a long-time Wall Street veteran, Yves Smith through her influential blog "Naked Capitalism" lucidly explains to her over 250,000 unique [...]
The Looting of America and Bailout Nation: An in-depth review by Hazel Henderson
Bailout Nation by Barry Ritholtz John Wiley (2009) The Looting of America by Les Leopold Chelsea Green (2009) Review by Hazel Henderson Both of these books are excellent accounts of the 2008-2009 financial meltdown – from different and complementary perspectives. Barry Ritholtz is an irreverent Wall Street insider with a [...]
The New Financiers
By Hazel Henderson © 2009 A venture capitalist friend of mine asked me in a recent discussion about the financial meltdown, "who will be the new financiers?" (more...)
