Posts Tagged ‘financial sector’
G20 Must Act for Jobs, Regulation and Financial Transactions Tax
INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION Publication from ITUC OnLine 039/170211 G20 Must Act for Jobs, Regulation and Financial Transactions Tax Brussels 17 February 2011 (ITUC OnLine): The international trade union movement is calling on G20 Finance Ministers, meeting in Paris on 18 and 19 February, to take action to avoid a jobless [...]
Misleading “Research” From The Chamber Of Commerce
Article from The Baseline Scenario Posted: 14 Feb 2011 10:49 AM PST By Simon Johnson On behalf of key financial sector players, Keybridge Research has just published a report that claims the Dodd-Frank reforms for over the counter derivatives market “could cost 130,000? jobs. My MIT colleague, John Parsons, deftly takes this apart on [...]
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Paul Clements-Hunt
A publication from Emerging Markets ESP Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience. The goals of Five Questions about SRI are [...]
Financing real transformation? Designing an effective financial mechanism under the Convention
This event will bring together the combined voice of the NGO community and the private financial sector regarding the financing of action to tackle climate change. Read more...
Ethical Markets Media Supports FTT
By Hazel Henderson, June 2010 Today, over 60% of all trading on Wall Street exchanges is done by computers - all programmed to compete to get the fastest execution of their trades at the best price. Each trade generates a commission so the most trades make the most money. The latest "innovation" is "high-frequency" or "flash" trading, where [...]
Jimmy Stewart Is Dead
Prof. Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University has some creative and viable new ideas for reforming our "too big to fail" banks and making our financial sector much safer. We will be reviewing his forthcoming book, JIMMY STEWART IS DEAD, from Wiley Publishers on its launch . Meanwhile our thanks to Prof. Kotlikoff for this advance look: - Hazel [...]
Diagnosing the Economic Body Politic
January 9, 2009 By Hazel Henderson © 2009 SYNDICATED DISTRIBUTION TO 200 CLIENTS IN ASIA, EUROPE, LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA. For information on subscribing to IPS Columnist Service, Rome, contact Pablo Piacentini at romacol@ips.org, fax 39-06-4817877, or his assistant Francesca Buffo at romacol4@ips.org. For permission to syndicate or reprint [...]
