Posts tagged “rogue economics”
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Loretta Napoleoni at Liberty Plaza
October 10, 2011
Loretta Napoleoni, the author of the bestselling book Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality and one of the world’s leading experts on money laundering and terror financing, will be at Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) to speak about Occupy Wall Street on Monday, October 10th at 2pm.
Tags: lecture, liberty plaza, loretta napoleoni, maonomics, occupy together, occupy wall street, rogue economics
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Loretta Napoleoni on Occupy Wall Street
September 29, 2011
On Tuesday, October 11th, Loretta Napoleoni visited Zuccotti Park to speak about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Her recently published book Maonomics illustrates the peaceful economic revolution that is shifting the balance of power in the world from West to East…
Tags: loretta napoleoni, maonomics, occupy wall street, rogue economics
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Loretta Napoleoni at Google UK
June 2, 2010
In May 2010, Loretta Napoleoni, author of Terrorism and the Economy, appeared at Google UK for an hour-long presentation on the financing of terror networks around the world. Settle in and take a look below!
Tags: current events, economics, google, interviews, loretta napoleoni, rogue economics, terrorism and the economy, united kingdom
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Loretta Napoleoni: How the Patriot Act contributed to the global financial crisis
April 7, 2010
Legislation that greatly reduces the liberties of U.S. citizens, the Patriot Act includes financial provisions that are the toughest anti-money laundering regulations so far introduced in a Western country. Too bad the regulations only apply to transactions in U.S. dollars involving U.S. banks and U.S. registered foreign banks.
… Far from destroying terrorist finance networks or even curbing money laundering, the new financial regulations prompted an outflow of money from the United States. Banks did not like the Patriot Act and advised clients to move away from dollar-denominated investments into euro investments. The infant euro at the time offered a perfect alternative.
Money launderers made similar decisions, and simply moved their activities across the Atlantic. The absence in the European Union of any legislation similar to the Patriot Act encouraged such a decision. In the space of a few months, Europe became the epicenter of money laundering activity in the world.
— Loretta Napoleoni at the Washington Post’s Political Bookworm columnTags: current events, economics, loretta napoleoni, patriot act, rogue economics, terrorism and the economy, washington post
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Loretta Napoleoni: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?
November 11, 2009
From Loretta Napoleoni (author of Rogue Economics and the upcoming Terrorism and the Economy) at the Huffington Post:
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the US is losing the war in Afghanistan, a country that indirectly contributed to the break-up of the USSR. Where coalition forces today battle the Taliban and al Qaeda, in the 1980s, the Soviets fought the Mujahedeen — a Muslim army of volunteers that Moscow called terrorists. Fighting the anti-Soviet Jihad, a brutal war funded by the CIA and the Saudis, became too costly for bankrupt Moscow. In a painful and humiliating withdrawal, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989, just a few months before the implosion of the Soviet System. Without that defeat we might not be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War or a unified Europe today. Remarkably, the central Asian country of Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future.
Tags: afghanistan, articles, current events, economics, huffington post, loretta napoleoni, rogue economics, terrorism and the economy
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Loretta Napoleoni addresses the European Parliament in Brussels
April 28, 2009
Loretta Napoleoni, author of Rogue Economics, addressed the European Parliament in Brussels on April 1 with her speech, “Feast of Fools”—in which she discusses cocaine trafficking, the Patriot Act, and the dependence of the American economy on the underground. In short: watch the video. (For an English translation, text only, please click here and scroll down the page.)
Tags: brussels, cocaine, european parliament, loretta napoleoni, patriot act, rogue economics, speech, underground economy
“rogue economics” Posts
- Oct 10, Loretta Napoleoni at Liberty Plaza
- Sep 29, Loretta Napoleoni on Occupy Wall Street
- Jun 2, Loretta Napoleoni at Google UK
- Apr 7, Loretta Napoleoni: How the Patriot Act contributed to the global financial crisis
- Nov 11, Loretta Napoleoni: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?
- Apr 28, Loretta Napoleoni addresses the European Parliament in Brussels
