Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – For innovative young folks, angels are by no means mythical beings or messengers of God as depicted in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and the Quran. They are flesh-and-blood source of equity capital at the seed and early stage of [...]
19 Million Jobs For U.S. Workers: The Impact Of Channeling $1.4 Trillion In Excess Liquid Asset Holdings Into Productive Investments
December 22, 2011 By
A new report is available at the Political Economy Research Institue, PERI. 19 Million Jobs For U.S. Workers: The Impact Of Channeling $1.4 Trillion In Excess Liquid Asset Holdings Into Productive Investments Pollin, Robert | Heintz, James | Garrett-Peltier, Heidi | Wicks-Lim, Jeannette | 12/5/2011 Download the full report from the PERI Website 1.2 MB [...]
Banks Holding 1.4 Trillion, Could Create 19 Million Jobs
December 22, 2011 By
The Real News Network December 21, 2011 Bob Pollin: Study looks at impact of 1.4 trillion in excess liquid asset holdings if put in productive investments More at The Real News
$7.7 Trillion to Wall Street – Anything to Keep the Banksters Happy!
December 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on Truthout Saturday 3 December 2011 Read the article in its original form on Truthout By: Thom Hartmann, Truthout | News Analysis Do you know who Elizabeth Duke is? How about Donald Kohn or Kevin Warsh? No? Well – you should. Because while Congress was debating back in [...]
Will an Incompetent European Central Bank be Allowed to Wreck the World Economy?
December 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on The Guardian Unlimited, December 5, 2011 See this article on the original website By Dean Baker The world is eagerly waiting to see if the European Central Bank (ECB) will take the steps needed to save the euro. Specifically, is the ECB prepared to act as a [...]
Microfinance Works – For the Rich
November 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Raquel Martinez VALLADOLID, Spain, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – Jesús Guerra, a volunteer at this week’s Fifth Global Microcredit Summit in this Spanish town, was nonplussed by the expensive gold watch sported by a banker from a developing country. "When I volunteered to help at the Summit [...]
IMF Seeks Asia’s Help to Tackle Eurocrisis
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By J. C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – When an international commission headed by Nobel laureate Willy Brandt drew attention to global economic interdependence in its report in 1980, the world was divided between rich North and the poor South. More than three decades later, the International [...]