Finance should once again support the real economy of goods and services.

I spent 22 years in the financial services business.

The Rio declaration contains 283 paragraphs of blank prose that "reaffirm," "note," and "acknowledge" a long shopping list of activities, but "commit" to virtually nothing.

By Oscar Reyes

As individuals with first-hand knowledge and significant experience in the financial industry, we urge you to introduce small financial transaction taxes (FTTs).

Dear G20 and European leaders,

U.S.

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There's actually not such a great distance between what's happening in Greece and the "green economy" agenda that the EU is pushing here.

By Oscar Reyes

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon will today, once again, stand before the authors of Dodd-Frank and attempt to make the case for why a $2 billion trading loss was a stupid mistake, not a willful breach of at least the intent of the law. Our representatives who wrote the law should hold him to the standards set by JPMorgan’s own Code of Conduct: following the spirit and intent, not just the letter, of the law.

The Cleveland Model: building green worker cooperatives within a community framework that leverages the procurem

How to choose people, place, and planet over profit, product, and power.

And a new politics?

Simply obtaining measures to implement the commitments made 20 years ago would be better than creating any new corporate-driven initiatives or issuing yet more empty promises.

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