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Published on Sunday, 01 April 2012 19:27 | | 
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‘Massive private gains at public loss’
‘Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman brothers; they knew what was happening’
’What can we believe in? There’s nothing we can trust anymore’
Charles Ferguson’s award winning documentary Inside Job, narrated by Matt Damon, exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. Not only was the crash avoidable, Ferguson claims that the industry corrupted bankers, analysts, academics, government officials and the discipline of economics itself.
Watch Inside Job
Watch an Interview with Charles Ferguson
Published on Saturday, 11 February 2012 12:03 | | |
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Inequality matters! It causes stress, undermines community life and corrodes society as a whole.
Societies that do best for their citizens, claim Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett in their book The Spirit Level, are those with the narrowest income differentials, such as Japan and the Nordic countries. The most unequal - the United States, Portugal and the United Kingdom - do worst.
Published on Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:22 | | |
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'The next twenty years are going to be completely unlike the last twenty years.' So says Chris Martenson in his best-selling presentation The Crash Course.
Focusing on 'The Three E's' of economics, energy and the environment, he explains not only why our current systems are unsustainable but, more importantly, that our growing awareness of our predicament will lead to deeper understanding and - ultimately - positive actions.
Published on Friday, 23 December 2011 12:38 | | |
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Creating a new kind of economy is crucial if we want to tackle climate change and avoid the growing social problems associated with the rise of economic inequality. Could 'The Great Transition' point the way forward?
Published on Thursday, 11 August 2011 19:51 | |
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