Focus on US Employment — July 2014 Update By Hazel Henderson Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by a healthy 288.000 in June, good news after the 2.8% drop in GDP-growth for Q1. The 224,000 jobs added in May followed April’s 304,000. Upward revisions: to 203,000 from the 192,000 reported for …
Classic Articles: Globalization – A Summon to Social Renewal in the 21st Century
This classic piece by Hazel Henderson was written in 1996 for the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning and Dialogue on her acceptance of their Global Citizens Award.” ~ Editor Globalization: A Summon to Social Renewal in the 21st Century Hazel Henderson offered these remarks at the Center’s Second Annual …
Robert Skidelsky on the economics curriculum
New post on Real-World Economics Review Blog Robert Skidelsky on the economics curriculum by merijnknibbe According to Brad deLong, ‘the extremely wise Robert Skidelsky has an excellent rant against Anglo-Saxon economics departments’, on Project Syndicate. First a Skidelsky excerpt, below this some Brad. The deeper message is that mainstream …
Brad Katsuyama on Conflicts of Interest, Investor Loss of Confidence, and High Speed Trading in U.S. Stock Markets
Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs by Bradley Katsuyama, President and CEO, IEX Group, Inc. EXCERPT Committee Ask: Address conflicts of interest affecting brokers charged with seeking best execution of customer orders, including conflicts posed by …
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, …
real-world economics review – issue no. 67″ : Loanable funds vs. endogenous money: Krugman is wrong, Keen is right
real-world economics review – issue no. 67 real-world economics review – Subscribers: 24,474 Subscribe here Blog ISSN 1755-9472 – A journal of the World Economics Association (WEA) 12,557 members, join here – Sister open access journals: Economic Thought and World Economic Review – back issues at www.paecon.net recent issues: 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 Issue no. 67, 9 May 2014 http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue67/whole67.pdf You can download the whole issue as …
Energy Storage: the Next Charge for Distributed Energy.
By John Farrell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, March 2014 Energy storage promises to change the electricity system during the next decade, as fundamentally as distributed renewable energy has in the last decade. A new report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Energy Storage: The Next Charge for Distributed Energy, forecasts …
Welcome to the Sharing Spring!
APRIL 1, 2014 NEWSLETTER Welcome to the #SharingSpring! Dear Kosmos Friends, Spring is here in New England and we are celebrating with our friends at Shareable. In the face of today’s enormous challenges, we often hear, ‘yes, but what can I DO?’ This Kosmos Newsletter offers some great options. All kinds …
TheCrowdCafe Weekly Review – Say Hello to our First Collection, “University Crowdfunding.”
TheCrowdCafe weekly • March 9th, 2014 • Happy Sunday, All! Welcome to this week’s edition of TheCrowdCafe’s Weekly Review. Each week I curate the top investment crowdfunding news from around the web. My promise to you: quality over quantity, always. You can subscribe here. From TheCrowdCafe Say Hello to our First Collection, “University …
Enough Is Enough: Fraud-ridden Banks Are Not L.A.’s Only Option
Enough Is Enough: Fraud-ridden Banks Are Not L.A.’s Only Option Posted on January 29, 2014 by Ellen Brown “Epic in scale, unprecedented in world history.” That is how William K. Black, professor of law and economics and former bank fraud investigator, describes the frauds in which JPMorgan Chase (JPM) has now been implicated. They involve more …