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Jan Wiklund: "I USA följdes krisen av 30-talets mest militanta arbetarmobilisering. Dussintals storindustrier ockuperades av strejkande arbetare vilket tvingade regeringen att svara på något vis, vilket blev till the New Deal."
The United Nations is convening a three-day summit of world leaders from 24 to 26 June 2009 at its New York Headquarters... was mandated at the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development, held in December 2008 in Doha. the General As
"like Japan and Germany, Sweden is a nation that makes most of its money via a huge trade surplus connected directly to a huge lending surplus aimed at keeping customer nations afloat so they buy more Swedish products"
REPORT: 100 NEW REACTORS WOULD RESULT IN UP TO $4 TRILLION IN EXCESS COSTS FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS AND RATEPAYERS Read the June 18, 2009 news release. Read the new report by economist Dr. Mark Cooper, a senior fellow for economic analysis at the Institute
Transformational Times. Houston, Texas May 20–22, 2009. "The meeting organizers hope[d] that the “Transformational Times” program encourages and facilitates inter-institutional collaboration and creative responses to funding challenges."
"If the G-20 fails to deliver, is it really possible that we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes with regard to building up vulnerabilities in our financial system? Amazingly, the answer is yes. How can this happen, with so many smart people in governm
"The Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) creates a ranking which identifies the jurisdictions that are most aggressive in providing secrecy in international finance, and which most actively shun co-operation with other jurisdictions"
Greg Palast intervjews Lamy and Martin Khor in Geneva. "GREG PALAST: But we got our hands on a document you certainly won’t find on the WTO website; something very confidential: a secret demand of the European Union and USA, leaning on emerging nations to
En kinesisk solskenshistoria. Thursday, October 12, 2006 By Andrew Batson in Wuxi, China, The Wall Street Journal. "When he arrived in Australia 18 years ago as a physics student, Shi Zhengrong scraped by on a meager stipend from the Chinese government t
About: "The Forum for Stable Currencies was co-founded by Lord Sudeley and Sabine K McNeill. It was the result of Lord Sudeley trying to get justice for two incidents in his family of unique notoriety: Lloyd’s bank had made his great-grandfather bankrupt
Posted December 2009. The reach of the newly global market, as Napoleoni argues in her new book, Rogue Economics: Capitalism's New Reality, connects us all to the dark side, regardless of our intentions to be responsible -- and, she says, our deep connec
The single day record for gross-value settlement, set on 19 Mar 2008, stands at US$ 10.3 trillion, for 1,113,464 payment instructions. A key feature of CLS is the settlement of gross-value instructions with multi-lateral net funding. On average, CLS netti
Loretta Napoleonis krönika i ETC, sept 2009. "Vakna upp innan det är försent." Begreppet feodal demokrati."Bekämpandet av terrorismens finansiering, de väpnade gruppernas blodomlopp, föll snart i glömska. Sedan attacken den 11 september 2001 har motsvaran
On February 1, the Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) joined with India's Economic Research Foundation (ERF) and the Heinrich Boell Foundation to launch the "Triple Crisis Blog." The blog brings together sixteen economic analysts from nin
Praise in Columbia Journalism Review for article by Lucy Komisar et alios in Miami Herald 2009 on Alle Stanford Ponzi Scheme (phony certified deposits). For this article, Lucy Komisar later won thef National Headliner Award, second place for Business
We have heard what civil society organizations and other interested stakeholders think and what they advocate. We are revising all the potential options on how the financial sector could make a fair contribution toward paying burdens associated with gover
"The Fair Currency Coalition is an alliance of industry, agriculture, and worker organizations whose mission is to support production in and export from the United States by seeking an end to the practice of currency misalignment by any trading partner."
"The average volume of worldwide arms transfers for 2005–2009 was 22 per cent higher than the period 2000–2004. [...] Greece remains among the top five largest recipient of major conventional weapons for 2005-2009, but has fallen from third place for 2000
Dr. Jayati Ghosh is Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Educated at Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University and the
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G20 Finance ministers and central bankers meet in Busan, Korea on June 4-5 ... Their leaders have agreed that banks should be made to pay for bailing out the sector in a future crisis so they can no longer believe they are "too big to fail" or that taxpay
While BP’s shares recovered some ground to close 6.6% down — wiping another £5bn off the value of the group — investors were spooked after US Department of Justice officials reportedly said they were planning “to take action” to make sure BP had enough ca
Prosperity Quest II Limited: Bolaget kommer att investera i Ryssland och de andra OSS-länderna, en region som har haft en stark ekonomisk tillväxt samt en ökad politisk stabilitet under det senaste decenniet. Tabellen nedan summerar den ryska ekonomins kr
World Bank paper on "...those economic activities and the income derived from them that circumvent or otherwise avoid government regulation, taxation or observation." "The authors find that the driving forces of the shadow economy are an increased burden