Posts Tagged ‘new york times’
Naked Capitalism: How the Media Will Cover the Ohio Zoo Escape: Our Official Predictions and more…
Links 10/20/11 How the Media Will Cover the Ohio Zoo Escape: Our Official Predictions VFDaily Clash of Rights on a Brooklyn Bus New York Times. Yours truly would not cooperate. Fat Replaces Oil for F-16s as Biofuels Head to War Bloomberg. So we kill people more efficiently, via ethanol subsidies and then by shooting [...]
Eve Ensler | Occupy Wall Street: A “Work of Art”
Reader Supported News | 11 October 11 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News **DONATIONS STOPPED ALL OF A SUDDEN: We were doing great, looked like we would finish, and then nothing. We only need 75 donations to finish. Guys!** Okay, I'll make a donation. Eve Ensler | Occupy Wall Street: A "Work of Art" Occupy Wall Street, [...]
BREAKING: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
Reader Supported News | 01 October 11 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News BREAKING: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge Police arrest demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement as they attempt to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) By Colin Moynihan, The New York [...]
Sheila Bair’s resignation from FDIC
A publication from The New York Times Sheila Bair’s Bank Shot By JOE NOCERA Published: July 9, 2011 It was midmorning on a crisp June day, and Bair, the 57-year-old outgoing chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — the federal agency that insures bank deposits and winds down failing banks — was sitting on a couch, [...]
Broadening Fiduciary Duty – Flexible Corp And Benefit Corp Explained
Editor's note: The New York Times is finally catching up with this story. See "A Scorecard for Companies with a Conscience" and "Ethical Businesses with a Better Bottom Line". BROADENING FIDUCIARY DUTY IN CALIFORNIA One proposal unleashes capital for impact investing and the other creates more accountability for corporate social [...]
5 Ways GE Plays the Tax Game
A publication of Propublica by Jeff Gerth, ProPublica, and Allan Sloan, Fortune GE is in a class by itself when it comes to paring its tax rate well below the top U.S. corporate rate of 35 percent – sometimes into the single digits – using an array of strategies that include hiring top tax experts from IRS and Treasury. A version of [...]
The Green Transition: A Personal Note from Hazel Henderson
The global economy is now at a tipping point – emerging from the 300-year fossil-fueled Industrial Era to the cleaner, greener information-rich renewable energy societies which I predicted in my The Politics of the Solar Age in 1981. Although prominently reviewed in the New York Times and based on six years of service on the Technology [...]
FCC Chief Revamping $8 Billion Fund
From the publication of Free Press FCC Chief Revamping $8 Billion Fund Under pressure to expand high-speed Internet access around the country, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will lay out a plan to revamp an antiquated $8 billion program to fund new broadband networks. Eliza Krigman, Politico FCC to Propose Expanding Broadband Service [...]
Fixing The US Budget – Straightforward Or The Hardest Problem On Earth?
By Simon Johnson The conventional wisdom is that we face a serious budget problem, ballooning debt and political deadlock that prevents any semblance of progress either in the short term or over the next 20 years. “The sky is falling — cut everyone’s wages, slash Social Security, buy gold!” summarizes the mood of this midterm moment. [...]
Help us put nations on a sustainable path
Mathis Wackernagel, founder of the Ecological Footprint, is on our Advisory Board for our Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators. - Hazel Henderson, Editor If you read the New York Times, the Washington Post, or dozens of other leading publications around the world last month, you may have seen our most recent findings: Humanity is [...]
