Palin Hong Kong Speech Blames Government For Financial Crisis

Former U.S. vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, criticized for her lack of foreign policy experience, emerged in Asia on Wednesday to share her views from “Main Street U.S.A.” with a group of high-flying global investors.
In her first trip to the region, the former Alaska governor addressed an annual conference of investors in Hong Kong in [...]

U.S. To Push For New Economic World Order At G20

The United States will urge world leaders this week to launch a new push in November to rebalance the world economy, but there are doubts national governments will bow to external advice.
A document outlining the U.S. position ahead of the September 24-25 Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh said exporters, which include China, Germany and [...]

Administration Unveils Bank Capital Proposal

The Obama administration on Thursday proposed stronger international standards for the capital reserves that banks are required to hold. The goal is to avoid a repeat of last year’s severe financial crisis.
The administration released a 14-page outline that would require higher capital cushions for firms deemed to be so large and interconnected they pose a [...]

G20 Aims At Bank Pay And Capital-Stimulus To Stay

G20 finance leaders on Saturday took aim at excessive bank pay and risk-taking at the root of the financial crisis and insisted trillions of dollars of emergency economic supports would be needed for some time.
Although the global economy looks brighter than when the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers met in April, their [...]

Central Bankers To Mull Crisis Lessons At Retreat

Two years after the start of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, policy-makers from around the world gather this week to think about how to prevent it from happening again.
The Kansas City Federal Reserve’s yearly conference at a mountain retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, will draw central bankers and [...]

Bernanke Says US Economy On Cusp Of Recovery

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared Friday that the U.S. economy is on the verge of a long-awaited recovery after enduring a brutal recession and the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Economic activity in both the U.S. and around the world appears to be “leveling out,” and “the prospects for a return to growth [...]

Hitler rants about the Global Financial Crisis

Hilter is hit by the Global Financial Crisis parody. Created by hitlerrantsparodies/aceman90001 Clip From Downfall (Der Untergang) The Hitler Rants Parody’s Group www.youtube.com

Workshop on Global Financial Crisis Part 2

On March 31, 2009 and in view of the G-20 Heads of State Meeting in London on April 2, the Symi Symposium organised a Preparatory Workshop for the meeting of the SI Commission on Global Financial Issues, taking place on the same day at the UN Headquarters under the chairmanship of Joseph E. Stiglitz. The [...]

Inside Story – Financial crisis to hit the poorest – Mar 5 – Part 2

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning that the global economic downturn could create a widespread humanitarian crisis in the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries.

The Global Financial Crisis: the implications for city and regional planning

Iwan Azis, City and regional planning professor and adjunct professor of economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, on the implications for city and regional planning (Jan 23, 2009 at Cornell University) Iwan J. Azis has addressed and published on topics of financial economics, economic modeling, and the linkages between macro-financial policy and social [...]

Workshop on Global Financial Crisis Part 1

On March 31, 2009 and in view of the G-20 Heads of State Meeting in London on April 2, the Symi Symposium organised a Preparatory Workshop for the meeting of the SI Commission on Global Financial Issues, taking place on the same day at the UN Headquarters under the chairmanship of Joseph E. Stiglitz. The [...]

Global Financial Crisis, National Responses, and the EU

www.watsoninstitute.org Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies presents: The European Union in a Moment of Crisis (October 28-29). It is a two-day exploration of the EU at this pivotal moment in its history analyzing its institutional, financial, and foreign policy issues. Four separate panels featured two of Europes leading political figures: past European Commission [...]

Michel Chossudovsky | 011409 Public Lecture “The Global Financial Crisis” 7/8

Professor Michel Chossudovsky delivering a public lecture at Montreal, January 14 2009; a lecture entitled “The Global Financial Crisis: The Great Depression of the 21st Century”. www.globalresearch.ca Copyright (c) 2009 Pierre Girard, for the Centre for Research & Globalization.

Global Financial Crisis – coast to coast am jan 12 2009 part 3

Global Financial Crisis – coast to coast am jan 12 2009 part 7

Pt.1 Paul Keating on global financial crisis

Dr. Ted Cohn – The Global Financial Crisis and Trade Protectionism: The Implications for Canada

SFU Seniors Forum with Ted Cohn, November 14, 2009 Topic: The Global Financial Crisis and Trade Protectionism: The Implications for Canada

Global financial crisis

In what way will Russias economy meet the turbulence hitting world financial markets? Which steps will the Russian Government take? The final decisions will be taken on Thursday at a meeting in Sochi, when the Russian business elite will discuss the burning issues with Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the global financial crisis

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director International Monetary Fund (IMF) speaking at the Herzliya Conference on the global financial crisis and international cooperation.

Davos Open Forum 2009 – Global Financial Crisis

www.weforum.org 29.01.2009 Davos Open Forum 2009 – Introducing the Open Forum AndrĂ© Schneider, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, World Economic Forum Thomas Wipf, President of the Council, Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, Switzerland Global Financial Crisis What Lessons Should Be Learned? Governments and central banks had to save the global financial system from certain [...]

Documentary # 1 – Gordon Brown’s Cover Up

The Renegade Economist will present a five part investigative documentary series uncovering the people and practices behind the global financial crisis.

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