Fighting Wall Street in the rulemaking process to protect Main Street.

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Financial Reform Newsletter April 3, 2014 Fighting Wall Street in the rulemaking process to protect Main Street. A funny thing happened on the way to preventing another financial crash and more wall street bailouts.  It’s called the rulemaking process, which is required to implement much of the financial reform law …

Today’s Top Stories from GFI: U.S. Treasury delays offshore tax-dodge law by 6 months

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Monday, July 15, 2013 Job Listing: Financial Transparency Coalition Administrator Behavioral Economics And Lessons For FCPA, AML, And Tax Compliance Are High Bribery Rates In Poor Countries Blocking Development? Global Witness’s Charmian Gooch At TED Global: Meet Global Corruption’s Hidden Players GFI Disappointed By Court Decision To Vacate Key …

The Cypriot viewpoint

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

     The Cypriot viewpoint By Cyprus.com Editors Cyprus Bailout: Stupidity, Short-Sightedness, Something Else? A quick run-down on the impressively stupid handling of the “Cyprus bailout” by the EU. And, before we go on, we should note that the on-the-ground situation for visitors and tourists is perfectly fine – Cypriots are …

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 …