http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:39:33 Why are we waiting Articles http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=10699 http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=10699  Hiding behind the complexities of our financial system, banks and other institutions are being accused of fraud and deception, with Goldman Sachs just the latest in the spotlight. This has become the most pressing election issue of all The global financial crisis, it is now clear, was caused not just by the bankers' colossal mismanagement. No, it was due also to the new financial complexity offering up the opportunity for... http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=9778 http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=9778 The Honourable Mr. Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister, Climate change: proposed personal briefing Your speech on 6 November 2009 to the Lowy Institute, in which you publicly expressed some concern at my approach to the climate question, has prompted several leading Australian citizens to invite me come on tour to explain myself in a series of lectures in Australia later this month. I am writing to... http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=9362 http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=9362  We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven't heard about it, that's because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders... http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=8920 http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=8920 “A year ago,” said law professor Ross Buckley on Australia's ABC News last week, “nobody wanted to know the International Monetary Fund. Now it's the organiser for the international stimulus package which has been sold as a stimulus package for poor countries.” The IMF may have catapulted to a more exalted status than that. According to Jim Rickards, director of market intelligence for scientific... http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=8391 http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=8391 To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. "They're good for you!" say the doctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what's in those vaccines. There's a good reason for that: If people knew what was really in those vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them. Aside from the dangerous ingredients many people already know about (like squalene or thimerosal), one of the key... http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=8223 http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=8223 Buried on page 83 of the 89-page Report on Financial Regulatory Reform issued by the U.S. Administration on June 17 is a recommendation that the new Financial Stability Board strengthen and institutionalize its mandate to promote global financial stability. Financial stability is a worthy goal, but the devil is in the details. The new global Big Brother is based in the Bank for International Settlements, a controversial institution that... http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=7799 http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=7799 Cartoon in the New Yorker: A gun-toting man with large dark glasses, large hat pulled down, stands in front of a bank teller, who is reading a demand note. It says, “Give me all the money in my account.” Bernie Madoff showed us how it was done: you induce many investors to invest their money, promising steady above-market returns; and you deliver – at least on paper. When your clients check their accounts,... http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=10302 http://www.whyarewewaiting.com/?process=views/article.php&articleId=10302 15 Years Ago, the Combined Assets of the 6 Biggest Banks Totaled 17% of GDP... Now 63% As Rolfe Winkler noted last September: For the big have gotten even bigger since the start of the financial crisis. At the end of 2007, the Big Four banks — Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo — held 32 percent of all deposits in FDIC-insured institutions. As of June 30th, it was 39 percent. (If the image...