Today’s Top Stories from GFI – IRS Nets Offshore Data From 77,000 Banks, 70 Countries In FATCA Push

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, SRI/ESG News

  Wednesday, June 4, 2014 From the Global Financial Integrity Blog: New York Regulator on BNP Paribas: Someone Needs to Get Fired Why Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s First Act Was To Go After Illicit Financial Flows Chart: Russian Bank Deposits in the U.S. Before and After Sanctions Credit Suisse, …

STOXX launches ESG weighted version of EURO STOXX 50 / STOXX Europe 50

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

STOXX Limited today introduced the EURO iSTOXX 50 SD-KPI and iSTOXX Europe50 SD-KPI indices. The two indices cover all 50 components of two Europeanblue-chip indices, namely the EURO STOXX 50 and the STOXX Europe 50. Thecomponents are slightly overweighted or underweighted (i.e. -10%, -5%, 0%,5%, 10%) on the basis of …

Downsizing Finance: The Mother of All Bubbles

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Articles by Hazel Henderson

Downsizing Finance: The Mother of All Bubbles By Hazel Henderson In this column, Hazel Henderson, a futurist and economic iconoclast who is the president of Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) and creator of the Green Transition Scoreboard, writes that economism must be defrocked as obsolete and a failed ideology. ST. …

National Black Chamber of Commerce Progress Report July 15 2013: Dealing with the Davis Bacon Act at Congress:

Jay OwenSRI/ESG News

  Register on the $500 million Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 20 Years of the NBCC NBCC 21st Annual Conference, July 24-26, Palm Beach, Florida-Four Seasons Resort [email protected] www.nationalbcc.org Progress Report 070213   1. Dealing with the Davis Bacon Act at Congress:  The House Small Business Committee is taking …

Raj Thamotheram on working together towards sustainable capitalism

Ethical MarketsEthical Markets Review

We are honored to publish this presentation by Raj Thamotheram, President, Network for Sustainable Financial Markets , of which we are members. Thamotheram is a longtime financial expert and practitioner who has become  a key figure in reforming global financial markets. – Hazel Henderson, Editor Good morning. Today’s “Accounting for …

NSFM Participants and UNPRI Academic Network Collaborate to Promote Responsible Investment Research; Raj Thamotheram on working together towards sustainable capitalism

Ethical MarketsSRI/ESG News

NSFM Participants and UNPRI Academic Network Collaborate to Promote Responsible Investment Research; Raj Thamotheram on working together towards sustainable capitalism Network for Sustainable Financial Markets has posted a new item, ‘NSFM Participants and UNPRI Academic Network Collaborate to Promote Responsible Investment Research; Raj Thamotheram on working together towards sustainable capitalism‘ …

Chapter 1: Elites vs. the People – The 2004 Election

Ethical MarketsEthical Markets Originals

Chapter 1:  Elites vs. the People – The 2004 Election By Alan F. Kay, PhD © 2004, (fair use with attribution and copy to author) June 7, 2004 The Setting Today we see elites with wealth and power dictating the course of government for their own benefit.  The rest of …