Why Don’t the Deficit Hawks Want to Tax Wall Street? by deanbaker1 from Dean Baker The intensity with which the country’s leading deficit hawks continue to ignore financial speculation taxes (FST) is getting ever more entertaining. While deficit hawks like Wall Street investment banker Peter Peterson, Morgan Stanley director Erskine …
Exorbitant Privilege by Barry Eichengreen, Oxford University Press 2011
Exorbitant Privilege by Barry Eichengreen, Oxford University Press 2011 Review by Hazel Henderson © 2011 Barry Eichengreen is a doyen of academic historians of currency, central banking and the evolution of global finance. This latest book does not disappoint and is timely. US politicians, not content with talking down the …
Advice for Bill Gates, Warren Buffet on Giving Money
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