Financial-crisis

New Internationalist has just hosted an inspiring evening of debate and analysis of the global economic crisis…

Economic theory has been so in awe of corporate globalization for so long that we have to look a long way back to find any insight into our current economic madness.…

What's not happened at the UN Finance for Development conference…

The UN Finance for Development conference is set to be a betrayal of historic proportions.…

What's missing is not money but democracy…

At the irrelevant 'Bretton Woods II' conference in Washington in a couple of weeks' time, the elephant in the room is the disastrous performance of the IMF, World Bank and WTO…

A recent farewell letter by famed hedge fund manager Andrew Lahde, gives an interesting insider’s perpsective into the financial crisis…

The US National Debt Clock – a fixture at New York’s Times Square for over twenty years – has recently run out of numbers to display the correct level of national debt which now exceeds a mind-boggling $10 trillion.…

It’s funny, but has it struck anyone how amazing it is that incapitalism’s latest crisis, governments can suddenly find billions,nay, trillions of dollars to buy out the ailing banks? All withtaxpayers’ money of course.…

As we all struggle to get to grips with all the implications of the financial crisis as it unfolds, there are a couple of websites that provide good points of reference.…