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FNTG White Paper on Responses to the Global Economic Crisis 2010

Contents

PREFACE

I. INTRODUCTION

II. CASE STUDIES

Case Study #1: Bank Accountability

Case Study #2: Financial Speculation Taxes

Case Study #3: Commodities Speculation

Case Study #4: International Financial Institutions

Case Study #5: Building Grassroots Alternatives

III. FUNDING NEEDS

IV. FOR FURTHER

READING

 

NOVEMBER 2010

Civil Society Responses

to the Global Financial and Economic Crisis

FNTG White Paper

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IV. For Further Reading

The following list was compiled by FNTG:


Timeline: The Global Economy in Crisis
Interactive timeline from the Council on Foreign Relations showing how weaknesses in the US financial sector in 2007 sparked a crisis that spread to the global economy

Institute for Policy Studies Program on Inequality and the Common Good
Focuses on the dangers that growing inequality pose for U.S. democracy, economic health and civic life; coordinates the Working Group on Extreme Inequality.

The Big Picture
Barry Ritholtz's blog for investment professionals, media and anyone else interested in investing, markets and the economy.  

Triple Crisis
Global Perspectives on Finance, Development and the Environment

The Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman's Op Eds and blog posts for the NY Times

Showdown in America

Campaign led by National People's Action to keep families in their homes, hold banks accountable and fix the broken financial system

Campaign for America's Future

Blogs for an economy for all

Center for Economic and Policy Research

Promoting democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives.

Coalition for an Accountable Recovery

Promotes accountability for both government agencies and the companies that contract with or benefit from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

10 Ways to Game the Carbon Markets

Commodities Speculation on the Carbon Market

Beat the Press

Dean Baker's blog how financial issues are reported in the national press

WonkBook - Financial Crisis

Ezra Klein's blog on the financial crisis in the Washington Post

Government is Good

Douglas Amy's website intended to balance out the debate over government and to set the record straight about this much maligned institution

Americans for Financial Reform

News and information about the fight to protect everyday American consumers, investors, and workers from Wall Street's greed and excess

Tracking the Global Financial Crisis

Weekly update tracking how states and non-state actors are reacting to the current global financial crisis

Debtonation

Ann Pettifor's blog about the global financial crisis

 

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