IT’S NOT JUST GEORGE SOROS ANYMORE By Chrystia Freeland* Earlier this year, the most reliable way for a billionaire to make the headlines was to compare suggested tax increases to Nazi Germany. Lately, though, the more interesting shift in the politics of the plutocracy has been more genteel. There will …
Heads of Exclusive Global Institutions Call for “Inclusive Capitalism”
Press Release May 29, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Heads of Exclusive Global Institutions Call for “Inclusive …
James Robertson Newsletter: Growing Support For Monetary Reform
James Robertson Newsletter No. 47 – May 2014 The full Newsletter can also be viewed at www.jamesrobertson.com/newsletter.htm. CONTENTS Editorial 1. Growing Support For Monetary Reform 2. A Possible Tipping Point From Scotland 3. Growing Inequality – Thomas Piketty’s Book 4. Practical Achievement And Far-Sighted Analysis 5. Liberation Of Work, …
Bretton Woods Bulletin February 2014 :
February 2014 Please find below the highlights of the Bretton Woods Bulletin February 2014, including: A Comment piece on the World Bank’s mechanisms by Andrea Rodriguez Osuna and Astrid Puentes; An At Issue briefing on the new brics bank by Sameer Dossani; A Guest Analysis piece on the IFC’s much-criticised investment in Tata’s Assam …
Reverse the Curse of Economic Inequality
In 2013, we made significant progress towards increasing transparency, inclusion and responsibility in global financial-rule making. New Rules successfully convened developing country regulators and CSOs with the Financial Stability Board (FSB), strengthened engagement between civil society and the IMF, worked with partners to curb illicit financial flows from developing countries, …
“IMF Reform: An Imperative for US Leadership – Nov 20 @ Carnegie Center
This is a kind reminder that New Rules and the Heinrich Boell Foundation will be hosting a seminar on IMF Governance Reform this Wednesday at the Carnegie Center. We hope you can join us for this discussion and help us to move these critical reforms forward. Please see details below: IMF …
The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland
The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland Posted on November 2, 2013 by Ellen Brown The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed—from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th centuries, to the mid-nineteenth century “potato famine” that was really …
Egypt – ISIS (Integrated Synergistic Information System)
As a member of the Millennium Project ‘s Planning Committee I applaud this creative initiative , Hazel henderson, Editor The Millennium Project has begun to work with the Egyptian Academy ofScientific Research and Technology to create the first national fully publiccollective intelligence system in the world to be …
9th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference September 19-22, 2013 Chicago, Illinois
9th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference September 19-22, 2013 Chicago, Illinois Sign up by June 21st for a $285 donation instead of $395. A savings of $110! Hazel, The 2013 AMI Monetary Reform Conference is shaping up as an important event in the ongoing battle to achieve real monetary reform! This year’s speakers …
Today’s Top Stories from GFI: African dream ‘held back by illicit outflow of capital’
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Kofi Annan: Imagine An African Continent, Where Leaders Use Mineral Wealth Wisely New Draft Paper: Emerging Countries and the Taxation of Offshore Accounts “The Trend is in Our Direction.” Appeals Court Loss is Latest Setback for Oil Company Secrecy Campaign Karzai’s Ghost Money from the …