Africa and the War Against Offshore Finance
THE REAL NEWS To reduce poverty, Africa needs to demand financial transparency as big banks collude with local corruption.
Economics
The Man Who Invented “Too Big to Fail” Banks Finally Recants. Will Obama or Romney Follow?
OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN? I’m in Alaska, amid moose and bear, trying to steal some time away from the absurdities of American politics and economics. But even at this remote distance I caught wind of Sanford Weill’s proposal on CNBC that big banks be broken up in order to shield taxpayers from the consequences of their …
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The True Job Creators are Middle Class Consumers
TED Nick Hanauer’s TED talk on inequality was widely reported as being banned from publication, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it may have suspiciously been overlooked because its content is so contradictory to orthodox economic philosophy. It’s certainly also possible that it was merely passed over as other videos that …