Make Finance Work

Friends of the earth Europe, 16 May. This week, 15th-22nd May, campaign groups and individuals all across the world are taking part in a global week of action for a Robin Hood Tax – the financial transaction tax that would raise millions to fight poverty and climate change, whilst curbing the excesses of our failing financial system.... Read the whole (...)

Calling all bloggers: we need your help turn the Robin Hood Tax from a great idea into a brilliant reality. For one week, from 15th-22nd May people in more than thirty countries around the world are ramping up their Robin Hood Tax work to become the roar it deserves to be. As part of this we’re asking people who blog, and have online audiences to get (...)

Simon Johnson, 11th May. Experienced Wall Street executives and traders concede, in private, that Bank of America is not well run and that Citigroup has long been a recipe for disaster. But they always insist that attempts to re-regulate Wall Street are misguided because risk-management has become more sophisticated – everyone, in this view, has become (...)

John Kemp. May 9 (Reuters). Research and analysis into commodity prices and derivatives almost always relies on the commitments of traders (COT) report published by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Except for some correlation studies published by the European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, every major report on the (...)

The Global Week of Action for a Robin Hood Tax is next week, 15th-22nd May 2012. It represents a great opportunity to demonstrate the strength, breadth and diversity of the international Robin Hood Tax campaign and influence decision-makers ahead of a critical inter-governmental meetings taking place during May and June 2012. Find out more about what (...)

Frederick Kaufman, The Guardian, Thursday 10 May 2012 Neither debate nor dictum have stopped bankers betting on the world’s food supply, leaving criminalisation as the only option Recent price spikes in global food commodities – most notably the bubbles of 2008 and 2010-11 – have exposed a fundamental fault of economic analysis: although speculation in the (...)

Friends of the Earth Europe, 27 March 2012. Markus Ferber, the MEP leading the European Parliament’s work on financial markets reform has today published proposals which would go some way to putting the hunger of people before the hunger of financial institutions. The proposals come in the form of a draft report on the European Commission’s proposed (...)