I’m keen to promote the thinking behind The Global Financial Crisis. Fortunately, I’m not alone: Debunking Economics or How Economists went Astray are two examples. And one of the best resources on the web questioning the crisis is CrisisMaven’s Blog.
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The Robin Hood Tax is the UK version of the Tobin Tax which was at the beginning of ATTAC in France ten years ago.
As an anti-poverty campaign, it is more pragmatic than the economic theories of Tobin Tax definitions or the political demands of the Attac network.
Supported by a coalition of 48 organisations, the Robin [...]
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03 August 2009
Dear John McFall MP
This is a belated clarification regarding myself in your letter to our Chairman Austin Mitchell MP of March 17. For I am not one of Austin’s constituents, but the organiser of a Forum that has been meeting in both Houses since 1998, as you will see on our archive site [...]
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Early Day Motion 1297 was tabled by Austin Mitchell MP on April 20th and has been signed by twelve other MPs.
It advocates the enforcement of the Bank of England Act 1694 and thus puts the finger on the button of the banking system and its supervisory institution: the Bank of England.
The outcome of our Forum [...]
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This Early Day Motion was tabled by our Austin Mitchell MP on April 20, 2009:
David Taylor MP tries to turn its message into an Amendment to the Budget.
I had sent the Act to HM Queen who sent it to Downing Street, who sent it to the Treasury which has not responded yet. But, for [...]
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JOINT PRESS RELEASE from CompleteMediaGroup and the Forum for Stable Currencies:
At 11am on Thursday 23rd April in the House of Commons Grand Committee Room, expert speakers will create the debate on financial reform at the Forum for Stable Currencies.
Expert speakers will be advocating economic democracy through freedom from National Debt. They will address [...]
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