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
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"Den lokalt skapade valutan stannar i den lokala ekonomin . Där finns den alltid tillgänglig. Vanliga pengar däremot, som sätts in på bank, återinvesteras mycket sällan i det område de kommer från."
China signed on last year to a G-20 platform for “strong, sustainable and balanced growth,” which has become a sort of motto for global the recovery. But there is little agreement on how to make the motto a reality. (NYT Yuan News)
In a statement, PayPal said that they have “…permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, faci
Review of Shaxon's "Treasure Islands" and "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class" by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
SANYA, China | Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:42am IST SANYA, China (Reuters) - The development banks of the five BRICS nations agreed in principle on Thursday to establish mutual credit lines denominated in their local currencies, not in dollars." "the leaders call
Början av december, 2010. "På EU:s toppmöte den 28 oktober uppges Tysklands förbundskansler Angela Merkel ha flaggat för att Tyskland har börjat fundera på att överge EMU. ”Om det här är den klubb som euron verkar utvecklas till kanske Tyskland borde dra
By Andrew Trotman, Telegraph 10 Feb 2011 (250 Comments) “Global imbalances are back, with issues that worried us before the crisis - large and volatile capital flows, exchange rate pressures, rapidly growing excess reserves - on the front burner once agai
11.7. Mark Weisbrot "The problem is that the monetary union, unlike the EU itself, is an unambiguously rightwing project. If this has not been clear from its inception, it should be painfully clear now, as the weaker eurozone economies are being subjecte
"... 15 August 1971. It was from this date that the US gave unlimited rights to the currency speculators after it reneged on the Articles of Agreement of the IMF that had placed the convertibility of the dollar on par with US$35 for one ounce of gold. Thi
July 21, 2011: "An amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to the Wall Street reform law passed one year ago this week directed the Government Accountability Office to conduct the study. "As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided m