Showing posts with label Bretton Woods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bretton Woods. Show all posts
31 January 2014

US Monetary Selfishness is Devastating for 'RoW'

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Remember the World Series? The naming of this League has always struck me as an interesting insight into how the US sees the rest of the w...
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7 November 2012

We Are All Greeks

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Over the weekend I was able to engage in some discussions about events in Greece. It is an increasingly desperate situation akin to simila...
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8 October 2012

Spies, Cash and Conspiracy Theories

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The similarities between the current global economic crisis and that of the 1930s has led many more thoughtful commentators to re-evaluate...
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8 June 2012

Enough to Bury a Skyscraper?

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If, like me, you are tired of hearing the same old simplistic dichotomy between austerity and growth you will enjoy the new retrospective o...
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12 January 2012

Free Trade or Bioregional Security?

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Word reached me yesterday that Colin Hines is writing again about the destructive nature of the global trade system and the need to protect ...
28 December 2011

Financial Chincanery Threatens Our Future

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While our policy-makers have been striding around their Cotswold estates burning off an excess of Christmas pudding, elsewhere in the world ...
4 November 2011

Why is the Euro so Strong?

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With chaos in the negotiations with Greece, rumours of potential bankruptcy in Italy, and real concerns about the economies of Portugal and ...
22 November 2010

Currency to Serve People and Planet

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We need to see the Irish tragedy as part of a wider picture: the ongoing currency wars and the struggle for domination of the global capital...
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8 July 2010

Don't Mention the Trade War

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Have you ever noticed how your German friends can't pronounce the name of their own country correctly? No doubt grown tired of us correc...
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23 January 2010

The Tripartite Hegemony

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It is clear that the problems facing the world economy have their origin in the financial system and that the curbs on bank powers proposed ...
28 August 2009

Tobin or Not Tobin

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At first blush we may be surprised to hear Adair Turner, the closest thing to crumpet the City ever produced, supporting a tax which has lon...
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9 April 2009

Plus ca change . . .

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Now the dust has settled, what are we to make of the G20 conference? Such high hopes; so little real achievement. When the whole process beg...
1 April 2009

G20-20: No Vision

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Yes, I know it's tempting to smash things up. I can't remember the last time I felt so frustrated as when I watched that glass windo...
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16 November 2008

G20: Some Achievement!

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I am impressed by the results of the so-called global negotiation that took place in Washington in just one day. It is a remarkable achievem...
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27 October 2008

International Monetary Farce

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Where do you turn as national chancellor when your country is bankrupt? If you don't have a reserve currency to protect you this is a si...
25 April 2008

Thomas Atwood Award 2008

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On Tuesday Austin Mitchell received the 2008 Thomas Atwood Award for his services to monetary reform in putting forward EDMs about public cr...