Posts tagged “terrorism and the economy”
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Loretta Napoleoni Attending Montana Festival of the Book
October 29, 2010
October 29-30, 2010, Loretta Napoleoni will be presenting her latest work, Terrorism and the Economy, at this year’s Montana Festival of the Book held in Missoula, MT. Location: Montana Center for the Book, 311 Brantly Hall Missoula, MT 59812. For more information about the event and its presenters go to www.humanitiesmontana.org.
Tags: festival, loretta napoleoni, missoula, montana festival of the book, nonfiction, terrorism and the economy
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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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BBC Interview with Loretta Napoleoni
April 21, 2010
Check out this BBC interview with Loretta Napoleoni, in which, in response to a question, Loretta explains the connection between terrorism and the global economy in under one minute. Then, check out Terrorism and the Economy, now available directly from our website and very soon in bookstores everywhere.
Tags: bbc, current events, economics, interviews, loretta napoleoni, terrorism, terrorism and the economy
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Loretta Napoleoni at TEDGlobal: The Economics of Terrorism
April 9, 2010
From the 2009 TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, here’s Loretta Napleoni on the intricate connections between Terrorism and the Economy:
Tags: conference, economics, loretta napoleoni, ted, tedglobal, terrorism, terrorism and the economy
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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
“terrorism and the economy” Posts
- Oct 29, Loretta Napoleoni Attending Montana Festival of the Book
- Jun 2, Loretta Napoleoni at Google UK
- Apr 21, BBC Interview with Loretta Napoleoni
- Apr 9, Loretta Napoleoni at TEDGlobal: The Economics of Terrorism
- 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?
