Tag Archive 'Hazel Henderson'

Further on the Robin Hood Tax

Posted in Business, Eco-friendly, Environment, Finance, Sustainability on Jan 10th, 2012

So what? Compare that to the $700 billion in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) approved by Congress to bail out “Too-Big-Too-Fail” (TBTF) financial institutions. If there had been a reserve built from an FTT, the financial institutions could have bailed themselves out without tapping into taxpayers’ funds.

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David Korten’s 10-Point Recovery Plan

Posted in Business, Finance on Jan 25th, 2011

We have trapped ourselves in an economic model that requires over-consumption to fuel its progress. Unfortunately, the collateral damage of funding relentless growth is often excessive levels of personal, institutional, and national debt. The way we deal with debt says a lot about the basic assumptions baked into our current economic model.

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