meganmonkey
03-25-2010, 04:11 PM
That's what I get for thinking about going to church on Sunday.
The topic of the day...
"Eden Revisited"
If we are to create heaven on earth economic justice must be a corner stone of the foundation. There are places to apply ourselves to this project at every level from support of grassroots community organizing to redirection of our planet's largest economic institutions. In collaboration with the Service Committee's Justice Sunday project, this service, will also draw on the work of Raymond Baker in his book Capitalism's Achilles Heel
I think: hmmm, intriguing...may be interesting...may be annoying...I'll look up this guy and his book and see what it's about...and see...
Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System
Author: Raymond W. Baker
Each year, an estimated $1 trillion passes illegally across borders, aided by an elaborate “dirty money” structure comprising tax havens, financial secrecy jurisdictions, dummy corporations, anonymous trusts and foundations, money laundering techniques, and loopholes intentionally left in the laws of western countries. Of this amount, some $500 billion a year comes out of developing and transitional economies into western coffers, fostering crime, facilitating terrorism, voiding trade and investment, dampening economic development, deepening poverty, supporting tax evasion, creating political instability, and, most fundamentally, abusing capitalism’s founding ideals of fair play.
In his new book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, Raymond W. Baker examines the illicit outflows of "dirty money" across international borders and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined in the global free-market system. The Brookings Center for Executive Education hosts a panel of experts who will address key aspects of the dirty-money equation detailed in Baker’s study: anti-money laundering issues, global inequality, and the philosophical underpinnings of capitalism.
It's a rare occasion indeed that I think about going to church. What a bummer. This isn't helping my relationship with god. LOLOL.
The topic of the day...
"Eden Revisited"
If we are to create heaven on earth economic justice must be a corner stone of the foundation. There are places to apply ourselves to this project at every level from support of grassroots community organizing to redirection of our planet's largest economic institutions. In collaboration with the Service Committee's Justice Sunday project, this service, will also draw on the work of Raymond Baker in his book Capitalism's Achilles Heel
I think: hmmm, intriguing...may be interesting...may be annoying...I'll look up this guy and his book and see what it's about...and see...
Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System
Author: Raymond W. Baker
Each year, an estimated $1 trillion passes illegally across borders, aided by an elaborate “dirty money” structure comprising tax havens, financial secrecy jurisdictions, dummy corporations, anonymous trusts and foundations, money laundering techniques, and loopholes intentionally left in the laws of western countries. Of this amount, some $500 billion a year comes out of developing and transitional economies into western coffers, fostering crime, facilitating terrorism, voiding trade and investment, dampening economic development, deepening poverty, supporting tax evasion, creating political instability, and, most fundamentally, abusing capitalism’s founding ideals of fair play.
In his new book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, Raymond W. Baker examines the illicit outflows of "dirty money" across international borders and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined in the global free-market system. The Brookings Center for Executive Education hosts a panel of experts who will address key aspects of the dirty-money equation detailed in Baker’s study: anti-money laundering issues, global inequality, and the philosophical underpinnings of capitalism.
It's a rare occasion indeed that I think about going to church. What a bummer. This isn't helping my relationship with god. LOLOL.