Learn how to deploy capital to make a positive impact while still maximizing returns Conference Overview Watershed Capital Group is pleased to host the Impact Capitalism Summit on April 29-30, 2014 at the Union League Club of Chicago. The Summit is an excellent forum to develop relationships, to gain …
U.S. Department of Commerce In Partnership With Watershed Capital Organizes 1st Impact & Sustainable Certified Trade Mission
The U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC and Watershed Capital Group are pleased to announce the first Impact & Sustainable Certified Trade Mission. The Impact & Sustainable Trade Mission will take place September 30, October 1, and October 2 in Zurich, Amsterdam, and London. The Trade Mission provides a venue for European institutional …
Lord Adair Turner on Money Creation and Banks
Lecture, Cass Business School, February 6, 2013 At a lecture at London’s Cass Business School, Lord Adair Turner broke ranks and called for an end to allowing private banks to create the nation’s money: instead, turning this vital function over to the government as money-creator. Turner proposed that governments …
UN Experts Call for Global Financial Tax to Offset Costs of Economic Crisis
New York, May 14 2012 11:05AM A group of United Nations independent experts today called on the European Union (EU) to take the lead in promoting the adoption of a global financial transaction tax that would offset the costs of the current economic crisis and protect basic human rights. “Where …
Energy & Capital: Conventional Economic Forecast But With Some Good Insights
The G20’s Wall of Doom: Five Trends for Q4 By Christian A. DeHaemer | Friday, October 22nd, 2010 As I write this, the preliminary meeting for the Group of 20 largest economies is taking place. U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner wants to force the Chinese to inflate the yuan to …