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2008-12-16
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Bank of Canada Lawsuit
Nelson, Joyce
Article
2016
Watershed Sentinel
One of the most important legal cases in Canadian history is slowly inching its way towards trial. Launched in 2011 by the Toronto-based Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), the lawsuit...
Banking Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
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Banks got $114B from governments during recession
CBC News
Article
2012
CBC News
Canada's biggest banks accepted tens of billions in government funds during the recession, according to a report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
'But the banks are made of marble' -- how banks screw the world
Rainford, John
Article
2015
Green Left
Across Africa, western Asia and Latin America in the 1980s, the growth of per capita GDP was brought to a halt. This was not a recession, it was a severe depression. And its cause was reckless lending...
Grameen Bank
Connexipedia Article
Article
A microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit" to the impoverished without requiring collateral.
The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy
Hudson, Michael; Hedges, Chris
Article
2016
CounterPunch
Chris Hedges has a discussion with the economist Michael Hudson (author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy) on a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines ...
How Australian bank financed the heroin trade
Rainford, John
Article
2013
Green Left
The most outrageous fraud ever perpetrated on the Canadian people
Can the Courts Liberate the Bank of Canada?
Dobbin, Murray
Article
2015
CounterPunch
You know the old aphorism -- "If a tree falls in the forest….?" Well, how about this one: if citizens win a significant victory in court against an autocratic government involving the fleecing of Can...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism
Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2015
Connexions
Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the ri...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2016
Connexions
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation the...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017
Public Transit
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
Connexions
Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many...
Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
Muñoz, Monica; Tremlett, Giles
Article
2013
The Guardian
In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism
Hudson, Michael
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
Private Banks: Creating Money Out of Thin Air
Bramhall, Stuart Jeanne
Article
2016
Dissident Voice
In his book The Joy of Tax: How a Fair Tax System Can Create a Better Society, Richard Murphy, UK Tax Justice Network co-founder, offers a radically pioneering approach to tax and fiscal policy. Murp...
Reverse Robin Hood: Six Billion Dollar Businesses Preying on Poor People
Quigley, Bill
Article
2016
Dissident Voice
Many see families in poverty and seek to help. Others see families in poverty and see opportunities for profit. Here are six examples of billion dollar industries which are built on separating poor p...
Spelling mistake prevented hackers taking $1bn in bank heist
Reuters
Article
2016
The Guardian
New York Fed reveals spelling of 'foundation' as 'fandation' prompted bank to seek clarification and stop transfer, but hackers still got away with about $80m.
The State as Protection Racket
Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
Wilkinson, T.P.
Article
2010
CounterPunch
The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgott...
Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy
Article
2015
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) offered services to clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations, in court documents and in the media as connected to arms trafficking, blood diamonds and b...
TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block Regulations
Dayen, David
Article
2015
The Intercept
Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trad...
UN General Assembly in One Voice (Almost) Rejects U.S. Cuban Blockade
Whitney, W.T.
Article
2015
CounterPunch
The United Nations General Assembly on October 27, 2015 voted on a Cuban resolution calling for "an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America agai...
Wall Street and the Greek Financial Crisis
Hudson, Michael; Black, Bill
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Michael Hudson and Bill Black zero in on some of the key elements of the crisis. They point out that it is not really 'Greece', let alone the Greek people, who have contracted this debt and who have b...
A Warning From the B.I.S.: the Calm Before the Storm?
Whitney, Mike
Article
2016
Counter Punch
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried that recent ructions in the equities markets could be a sign that another financial crisis is brewing. In a sobering report titled "Uneasy calm ...
Why Do Banks Really Want Our Deposits?
Hint: It's Not to Finance Loans
Brown, Ellen
Article
2014
Counter Punch
Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books.

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Beyond Banksters
Resisting the New Feudalism
Nelson, Joyce
Book
2016
Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastr...
Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist
Hudson, Michael
Article
2015
Spouting ostensible free market ideology, the pro-creditor mainstream rejects what the classical economic reformers actually wrote. One is left to choose between central planning by a public bureaucra...
Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Winter, James
Book
1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture publi...
Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Lemon, James T.
Book
1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the ti...

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Advisor's Edge
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New Internationalist
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.

Government Ministries & Agencies

Bank of Canada
Has responsibilities for Canada's monetary policy, bank notes, financial system, funds management. It's principal role, as defined in the Bank of Canada Act, is "to promote the economic and financial ...
Business Development Bank of Canada
BDC provides small and medium-sized businesses with flexible financing, affordable consulting services and venture capital. BDC supports the needs of entrepreneurs at every stage of growth.
Ontario Ministry of Finance
The Ministry focuses on four core business areas: tax policy and administration; economic analysis, fiscal policy and controllership; government financing and debt management; and financial services r...
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
Created to contribute to public confidence in the Canadian financial system.


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