Posts Tagged ‘washington post’
A Review of Hazel Henderson’s ‘Global Finance Lost in Cyberspace’
By Leland Lehrman, Partner, Fund Balance Hazel Henderson's essay "Global Finance Lost in Cyberspace" is a fabulously original synthesis of the latest and greatest in ecological economics and systems theory. There are important areas for follow up. I wish Henderson had provided links so that we could follow up on Haldane's ecological [...]
Can an Equity Agenda Spark Economic Growth?
Can an Equity Agenda Spark Economic Growth? By Neal Peirce For Release Sunday, November 20, 2011 (c) 2011 Washington Post Writers Group DETROIT -- "We stand with Occupy Wall Street. We're inspired by the organizing we've seen… It catches the moment." But the group PolicyLink, meeting here last week with 2,300 community organizers, [...]
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 [...]
Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street?
Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street? by deanbaker1 from Dean Baker The intensity with which the country’s leading deficit hawks continue to ignore financial speculation taxes (FST) is getting ever more entertaining. While deficit hawks like Wall Street investment banker Peter Peterson, Morgan Stanley director Erskine [...]
How-to Guide for Fixing America’s Banks
Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT This week’s Washington Post column is (finally) out, and its a look at the Buffett’s bailout of Bank of America, and what it means for the overall financial systems. “Many investors assumed the Wall Street bailouts of Bank of America and the other big banks more or less healed the sector. [...]
Think Progress Poll: 59% Of Americans Support Repealing Fossil-Energy Subsidies To Reduce Deficit
Reducing America’s debt will require a combination of spending cuts and tax increases. And a majority of Americans agree: According to a new ABC News/Washington Post Poll, 62% of Americans believe that reducing the deficit cannot be solved with a one-policy strategy. The poll also shows that reducing tax incentives for the legacy oil and gas [...]
Fast Net, Slow Food: Chattanooga’s New Formula
"Welcome to Citiwire.net! When our Citistates Group holds one of its yearly meetings — we call them Convergences of our Associates — we learn a lot from each other. And sometimes even more from the cities we visit. This year it was Chattanooga, one of America’s fabled recovery communities — now facing a new generation of problems and [...]
Public Transit, Access to Jobs: Escaping Our “Exit Ramp†Economy
“Welcome to Citiwire.net! Leave it to the Brookings policy wonks and number crunchers to digitize Americans’ transit habits, metro by metro, for the first time. ‘Surprise’ bottom line: transit works when regions plan their land use, fund their systems. That means better access to jobs. Put another way: If you like a jobless recovery, keep [...]
A 30-Year Success Story: What’s Next for “LISC”?
“Welcome to Citiwire.net! There’s lots of phony talk about “American exceptionalism” these days. But I’d nominate one valid contender: the early and continuing foundation and corporate support of development for our troubled neighborhoods. A major leader: the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Since I first interviewed founder Mike [...]
World Cities: Where to Put Their Oncoming Billions?
“Welcome to Citiwire.net! Will (must) the world’s cities grow dramatically in land form in the years ahead? It’s no longer very likely in the U.S. and Europe, but represents the all-but-inevitable scenario in the developing world as hundreds of millions of rural residents continue to pour into cities. A Lincoln Institute of Land Policy [...]
