Briefing On Financial Transaction Taxes
IPS is co-sponsoring this educational event on proposals to place small taxes on trades of stocks and other financial instruments as a way to generate massive revenues and discourage short-term speculation.
Runaway CEO Pay Helped Create the Economic Crisis; So Why Are Politicians Still Covering For Rich Execs?
A new study looks at the worst executive excesses – while Congress continues to help CEOs hide their outrageous pay rates from the public.
Capital Controls and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The first trade agreement to be negotiated by the Obama administration should allow governments to control volatile capital flows.
Getting Main Street to Call the Shots
America has plenty of cash, but it’s in the wrong pockets.
How Do International Trade and Investment Rules Affect Public Finance for Development?
Government efforts to finance job creation and other public goods can clash with subsidies restrictions in trade agreements.
Financial Transaction Taxes and the Global South
This downloadable pdf fact sheet answers frequently asked questions about the implications for the developing world of taxing financial speculation.
Meeting Needs of Developing Countries: The Role of Innovative Financing
Around the world, entities ranging from governments to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to the private sector have been giving more serious consideration than ever before to alternative financing mechanisms for development, climate change, education and other needs. IPS Global Economy project Director Sarah Anderson will speak on financial transactions taxes at this forum on innovative financing.
For Clue to How U.S. Would Respond to Its Own Fukushima, Look at Financial Crisis
Will Fukushima be a “teaching moment” for the United States?
Economic Meltdown: Let’s Not Get Fooled Again
Come to a movie night of the Academy Award Winner Best Documentary, Inside Job, a comprehensive analysis exposing the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs.
Europe’s Austerity: Like Something Out of the Brothers Grimm
Whether in crowds of 200 or 250,000, the public is beginning to object to austerity measures.
The Age of Activism
We must fight hard in our Age of Activism to construct a new political entity: the activist state. If we fail, we will slip, inexorably, into an Age of Apocalypse.
The Battle for Greece
A popular movement is up against an embattled government in Greece.
Food, Egypt, and Wall Street
As Egypt and the Middle East rise, Wall Street and congressional Republicans continue to ignore the financial reforms the world is demanding.
The Celtic Tiger Follows the Asian Tigers to Extinction
The failure of the Irish miracle, argues columnist Walden Bello, may signal the end of an era of miracles.
Ireland: The Great Famine 2.0
Historical analogies are tricky, but the potato famine and the current economic crisis have parallels that are hard to ignore.