“FIXING OUR BROKEN MONEY SYSTEM’ Cooper Union on May 12

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

We at Ethical Markets support the American Monetary Institute and its dedicated work and hope many will attend this conference on “Fixing our Broken Money System” ,   also watch our  TV Special “  THE MONEY FIX “   at www.ethicalmarkets.tv    –   Hazel Henderson, Editor in Chief Fixing our Broken Money …

Conference of the American Monetary Institute: The historic 8th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference is now in the History Books

kristyReforming Global Finance

Conference of the American Monetary Institute, The historic 8th Annual AMI Monetary Reform Conference is now in the history books. What was historic about it? For starters, the deputy head of Research at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), presented his paper, “The Chicago Plan Revisited.” The Chicago Plan had been …

Tesla Motors; Automaker or Graphic Novel?

kristyResource Efficiency

Tesla Motors; Automaker or Graphic Novel? Posted: 15 Jun 2012 04:57 AM PDT John Petersen One of the hardest parts of blogging about energy storage and vehicle electrification is the inability of some readers to wrap their minds around large numbers. We throw around numbers like thousand, million, billion and …

Why QE2 Failed: The Money All Went Offshore

kristyTV Series

Why QE2 Failed: The Money All Went Offshore Ellen Brown July 8, 2011 http://WebofDebt.com/articles On June 30, QE2 ended with a whimper. The Fed’s second round of “quantitative easing” involved $600 billion created with a computer keystroke for the purchase of long-term government bonds. But the government never actually got …

Tax Evasion: The Real Costs

kristySRI/ESG News

A publication from Demos’ Taxes Matter Week Tax evasion will cost the U.S. government $305 billion in 2010 and has cost $3 trillion over the past decade. It is a major contributor to budget deficits and the accumulation of national debt since 2001. Tax evasion also costs state treasuries billions …